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.

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

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

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

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.

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

A band is only as good as its euphonium section.