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- Desire
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From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.
- I Am
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I am happy now, to recall that I was not only his son but his companion, and whenever there was a hunting expedition or any other pleasure, I was always with him.
- Me
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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.
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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?
- Me
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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.
- He
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Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself.
- Composers
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Sincere composers believe in God.
- Music
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Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing.
- Lies
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My religion lies in my composition.
- I Can
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I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.
- Country
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I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band leader in the country.
- Better
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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.
- Lie
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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.
- Mean
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To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.
- Chill
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There is one thing that freezes a musician more than the deadliest physical cold, and that is the spiritual chill of an unresponsive audience!
- Own
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I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher.
- Best
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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.
- Man
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The office of President is a great one; to every true American it seems the greatest on earth. And to me, as I was engaged in weaving a background of music for the pageantry of it, there came a deeper realization of the effect of that office on the man.
- Nation
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No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts.
- Goodly
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America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people.
- Lights
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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.
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