#pub

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

— John Philip Sousa

#anybody #heart #music #public #quite

Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its dramatic form the central idea of a composition; and how can he convey that idea successfully if he does not enter heart and soul into the life of the music and the tale it unfolds? ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#central #composition #conductor #convey #does

I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band leader in the country.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

#band #band leader #believe #compositions #country

New-Year's Day arriving, and the ministers, to whom I wrote, remaining silent, I consider their silence as evidence, that they cannot prove what I said not to be from the Lord, and have therefore published as I was directed. ↗

— Joanna Southcott

#cannot #consider #day #directed #evidence

If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#business #cannot #choose #decide #difference

The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#ask #department #diversity #how #important

I'm not eager at all to present my life out there for public consumption. I like to do one or two films a year and then do what is absolutely obligatory in terms of promoting them. My life outside of films is vital to me. ↗

— James Spader

#consumption #eager #films #i #life

I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentalist for entertaining the public and wrong to pay a ball player for doing exactly the same thing. ↗

— Al Spalding

#actor #ball #ball player #could #doing

Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#business #comes #dollars #done #down

Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write. It's the first impression and will either open the door or close it. It's that important, so don't mess it up. Mine took 17 drafts and two weeks to write. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#close #door #drafts #either #ever