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

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

Music

Childhood

Desire

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

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

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.

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.

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

John Philip Sousa

Music

Production

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

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?

People thought me a bit strange at first; a blond haired, blue-eyed Norwegian who sang Mexican folk songs, but I used it to my advantage and got a job. And so the music became my ticket to education.

Music always came first. I never set out to be an actor.

If the breaking news story had to do with hard news, politics specifically, I had a lot to do with it. If it had to do with music, Kurt Loder was more involved.

Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure.

Stephen Sondheim

Music

I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.

Stephen Sondheim

Music

Writing

One of the hardest things about writing lyrics is to make the lyrics sit on the music in such a way that you're not aware there was a writer there.