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There is one thing that freezes a musician more than the deadliest physical cold, and that is the spiritual chill of an unresponsive audience! ↗

— John Philip Sousa

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

— Kevin Spacey

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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

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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

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I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band leader in the country. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

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Sincere composers believe in God. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

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Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument. ↗

— Robert South

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I think the degree of alienation and despair is more universal. ↗

— Terry Southern

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Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. ↗

— Erich Fromm

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Someone wrote a piece about Henry Green in The Partisan Review that was so intriguing that I got one of his novels, Loving, I believe, which was the first that came to attention in the United States. ↗

— Terry Southern

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