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Success People

My success is not due to any personal superiority over other people.

- John Philip Sousa

Other quotes by John Philip Sousa

Music

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

- John Philip Sousa
Music

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

- John Philip Sousa
Time

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
Beauty

Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty.

- John Philip Sousa
Popular Mind Music

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

- John Philip Sousa
People

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

- John Philip Sousa

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