William Bolcom quotes

“I would find myself, not necessarily always assigning these little bits of music for here or there, but all of a sudden something would fall into place and it would be exactly that.”
-- William Bolcom

#Fall Quotes #Littles Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“Once I know what the first page is, then the rest will come.”
-- William Bolcom

#Pages Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“There's got to be something that you can do that will not just be a nice honor to the play, or the book, or the movie you're dealing with, but some aspect that maybe can explore something that the play couldn't do.”
-- William Bolcom

#Nice Quotes #Book Quotes #Play Quotes

“I knew I was going to be composing. It all makes sense in retrospect. But you don't know while you're in the process of improvising your life.”
-- William Bolcom

#Retrospect Quotes #Process Quotes #Composing Quotes

“When you can turn people on their head and shake them and no money falls out, then you know God's saying, "Move on, son."”

“Stars, I have seen them fall, But when they drop and die No star is lost at all From all the star-sown sky. The toil of all that be Helps not the primal fault; It rains into the sea And still the sea is salt.”

“These, in the day when heaven was falling, The hour when earth's foundations fled, Followed their mercenary calling And took their wages and are dead. The British regulars who made the retreat from Mons, beginning August 24, 1914.”

“You're going to fall down, but the world doesn't care how many times you fall down, as long as it's one fewer than the numbers of times you get back up.”

Source : "Remarks by Aaron Sorkin ’83 at Syracuse University’s 158th Commencement and the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry’s 115th Commencement". Aaron Sorkin's Commencement address at Syracuse University in New York, news.syr.edu. May 13, 2012.

“The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.”

“You smile upon your friend to-day, To-day his ills are over; You hearken to the lover's say, And happy is the lover. 'Tis late to hearken, late to smile, But better late than never: I shall have lived a little while Before I die for ever.”

“I've never before been so aware of the thousands of little good things, the thousands of things that go right every day.”

Source : A. J. Jacobs (2011). “A.J. Jacobs Omnibus: The Know-It-All, The Year of Living Biblically, My Life as an Experiment”, p.937, Simon and Schuster

“Don't. Please, just let me hold you a little bit longer," he mumbled into my hair”

“It is almost impossible to throw dirt on someone without getting a little on yourself”

“Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.”