“I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his ...” — John Philip Sousa Quote

I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher.

To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.

I firmly believe that we have more latent musical talent in America than there is in any other country. But to dig it out there must be good music throughout the land, a lot of it. Everyone must hear it, and such a process takes time.

My success is not due to any personal superiority over other 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 was very strongly influenced by women's magazines and I really believed tha a woman could not be married and raise a family and have a successful career all at the same time.

I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.

I always believed in Jesus and God as a little boy.

I'm still one who says that we can get rid of the Internal Revenue Service if we would pass the fair tax, which is a tax on consumption rather than a tax on people's income, and move power back where the founders believed it should have been all along.

I really believed that I was on the right track, but that did not mean that I would necessarily reach my goal.