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• I think that the quality of all bands is steadily improving and it is a pleasant thought to me that perhaps the efforts of Sousa's Band have quickened that interest and improved that quality.

  John Philip Sousa

  Thinking, Effort, Quality

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• There is much modern music that is better adapted to a wind combination than to a string, although for obvious reasons originally scored for an orchestra. If in such cases the interpretation is equal to the composition the balance of a wind combination is more satisfying.

  John Philip Sousa

  Wind, Balance, Orchestra

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

  John Philip Sousa

  Beauty, Powerful, Opera

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

  John Philip Sousa

  Numbers, America, People

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

  John Philip Sousa

  Art, America, Young

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• 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.

  John Philip Sousa

  Routine, Genius, Development

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• 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

  Teacher, Light, Judging

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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

  Respect, Believe, Cities

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