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My success is not due to any personal superiority over other people. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#due #other #over #people #personal

The office of President is a great one; to every true American it seems the greatest on earth. And to me, as I was engaged in weaving a background of music for the pageantry of it, there came a deeper realization of the effect of that office on the man. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#background #came #deeper #earth #effect

America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#amount #composers #develop #expect #goodly

American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#american #foreign #indisputable #judge #lights

Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#bad #composers #good #good music #hear

As the years have gone on, I find one of the dangers of watching dailies... is you fall in love with moments. ↗

— Kevin Spacey

#dangers #fall #find #gone #i

Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#appeals #beauty #entirely #grand #most

David Burnett was the son of Martha Foley, who edited the Best American Short Stories series. She hired me to work with David and her to read stories for the anthology. ↗

— Terry Southern

#anthology #best #burnett #david #edited

I firmly believe that we have more latent musical talent in America than there is in any other country. But to dig it out there must be good music throughout the land, a lot of it. Everyone must hear it, and such a process takes time. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#any #believe #country #dig #everyone

I had found English audiences highly satisfactory. They are the best listeners in the world. Perhaps the music-lovers of some of our larger cities equal the English, but I do not believe they can be surpassed in that respect. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#believe #best #cities #english #equal