SOUSA SAYINGS.
Tli& following are a few of Sousa’s sayings:— . - , , “A musical instrument is a good deal like a gun —much depends on the man behind it/’ “The world does not care a rap for your name; it cares only for what you can do 1 to please, amuse, or instruct."' “Music’s golden tongue speaks to all alike, and Heaven help him wlm cannot understand.” “Poet and painter,. novelist and historian. maid and matron, youth and man, are like worshippers at the shrine of melody.’ 1 “Next to being born, the most important event of my life was when I began to study music.’ ’ “Let us hope that the. number of those who find no responsive chord in the welling tones of music are of the very, very.few. “From my earliest. , remembrance X wanted' to be a musician, and I have no recollection of ever wanting to be anything else.” .... “Music, mathematics, and babies are the only original packages.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3252, 24 June 1911, Page 9
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159SOUSA SAYINGS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3252, 24 June 1911, Page 9
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