"Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music."
― John Philip Sousa
Topic(s):
Beauty
More From John Philip Sousa
- "My success is not due to any personal superiority over other people."
- "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 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."
More In Beauty
- "I was not a good-lookin’ girl. I was extremely skinny. I wasn’t pretty. I wasn’t cool."― Celine Dion
- "Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it."― Thomas Carlyle
- "Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time."― Albert Camus