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

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I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band leader in the country.

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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.

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Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its dramatic form the central idea of a composition; and how can he convey that idea successfully if he does not enter heart and soul into the life of the music and the tale it unfolds?

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

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