_ "I had scaled the heights, the world was my apple, and nobody will ever feel more important than I did the morning I went down to Brooks Brothers to get measured for my Sousa uniform."
                 Meredith Willson

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Sousa on the Phonograph:  "Now a tireless mechanism can keep everlastingly at it, and much of what made the dance a wholesome recreation is eliminated."
                    John Philip Sousa

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It was Sousa who coined the term "canned music" in 1906 when he was waging a campaign against the phonograph industry's abuses of composer's rights.
                     Paul Bierley

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