John Philip Sousa

The red and white and starry blue _x000D_ Is freedom's shield and hope.

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

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.

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.

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

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