John Philip Sousa Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions.”

“My religion lies in my composition.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts.”

“Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to the development of true artistic genius.”