"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."
― John Philip Sousa
Topic(s):
Beauty
More From John Philip Sousa
- "My religion lies in my composition."
- "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."
- "I have always believed that 98% of a student’s progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher."
More In Beauty
- "Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever."― Helen Rowland
- "There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance."― Arthur Helps
- "Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon."― Andre Gide