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Top 30 John Philip Sousa Quotes (2025 Update)

John Philip Sousa Quote: “Dance as though no one is watching. Love as though you’ve never been hurt. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth.”

1. “Dance as though no one is watching. Love as though you’ve never been hurt. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth.”

— John Philip Sousa

John Philip Sousa Quote: “You can’t drive a Spike with a Tack Hammer.”

2. “You can’t drive a Spike with a Tack Hammer.”

— John Philip Sousa

John Philip Sousa Quote: “A band is only as good as its euphonium section.”

3. “A band is only as good as its euphonium section.”

— John Philip Sousa

John Philip Sousa Quote: “I have always believed that 98% of a student’s progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher.”

4. “I have always believed that 98% of a student’s progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher.”

— John Philip Sousa

John Philip Sousa Quote: “Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing.”

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

— John Philip Sousa

John Philip Sousa Quote: “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.”

6. “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.”

— John Philip Sousa

John Philip Sousa Quote: “Sincere composers believe in God.”

7. “Sincere composers believe in God.”

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John Philip Sousa Quote: “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.”

8. “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.”

— John Philip Sousa

John Philip Sousa Quote: “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.”

9. “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.”

— John Philip Sousa

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

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

— John Philip Sousa

John Philip Sousa Quote: “The vocal cord will be eliminated by a process of evolution, as was the tail of man when he came from the ape.”

11. “The vocal cord will be eliminated by a process of evolution, as was the tail of man when he came from the ape.”

— John Philip Sousa

John Philip Sousa Quote: “My success is not due to any personal superiority over other people.”

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

— John Philip Sousa

John Philip Sousa Quote: “Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.”

13. “Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.”

— John Philip Sousa

John Philip Sousa Quote: “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.”

14. “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

John Philip Sousa Quote: “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.”

15. “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

John Philip Sousa Quote: “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?”

16. “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?”

— John Philip Sousa

John Philip Sousa Quote: “The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions.”

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

— John Philip Sousa

John Philip Sousa Quote: “My religion lies in my composition.”

18. “My religion lies in my composition.”

— John Philip Sousa

John Philip Sousa Quote: “I forsee a marked deterioration in American musicand a host of other injuries to music in its artistic manifestations, by virtue – or rather by vice – of the multiplication of the various music-reproducing machines.”

19. “I forsee a marked deterioration in American musicand a host of other injuries to music in its artistic manifestations, by virtue – or rather by vice – of the multiplication of the various music-reproducing machines.”

— John Philip Sousa

John Philip Sousa Quote: “Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.”

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

— John Philip Sousa

John Philip Sousa Quote: “Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.”

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

— John Philip Sousa

John Philip Sousa Quote: “America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people.”

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

— John Philip Sousa

John Philip Sousa Quote: “No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts.”

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

— John Philip Sousa

John Philip Sousa Quote: “To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.”

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

— John Philip Sousa

John Philip Sousa Quote: “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.”

25. “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

John Philip Sousa Quote: “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.”

26. “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

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

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

— John Philip Sousa

John Philip Sousa Quote: “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.”

28. “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

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

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

— John Philip Sousa

John Philip Sousa Quote: “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.”

30. “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

John Philip Sousa Quote: “American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows.”

31. “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

John Philip Sousa Quote: “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.”

32. “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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