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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I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band leader in the country.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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The movements which I make I cannot possibly repress because, at the time, I am actually the idea I am interpreting, and naturally I picture my players and auditors as in accord with me. I know, of course, that my mannerisms have been widely discussed. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

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To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

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It is much easier to modify an opinion if one has not already persuasively declared it. ↗

— David H. Souter

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It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done. ↗

— Bishop Robert South

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Passion is the drunkenness of the mind. ↗

— Bishop Robert South

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Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it. ↗

— Robert South

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The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible. ↗

— Robert South

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