Quotes by John Philip Sousa

John Philip Sousa

American composer and conductor

Lived from: 1854 - 1932

Category: Music | Politics Country: United States

Born: 6 november 1854 Died: 6 march 1932

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• Sincere composers believe in God.

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• Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself.

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• Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing.

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• I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.

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• Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

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Subjects in these quotes:

• inspiration
• twenty-four
• receives
• touching
• anybody
• another

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