'John Philip Sousa' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

Sousa, John Philip Filmography

• Play in Full Screen John Philip Sousa Gets a Haircut

  2007, role: composer
• Play in Full Screen Welcome Back Riders

  2007, role: composer
• Play in Full Screen This Was Yesterday

  1954, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Stars and Stripes Forever

  1952, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Fifth String

  1913, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Sousa and His Band

  1901, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen John Philip Sousa

  1900, role: actor , character name: Himself

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Famous quotes by John Philip Sousa:

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

"I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher."

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

"I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band leader in the country."

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

"Sincere composers believe in God."

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

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

"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?"

"American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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

Born: 1854-11-06

Died: 1932-03-06