"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

“There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn't enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don't have enough.”
“Sometimes, it's good to have a tremendous star, because everyone understands he has to get the ball.”
“The surviving intelligent life form on Earth is not going to be carbon-based; it's going to be silicon-based.”
“Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.”
“Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the material world and, since it is the spirit that travels, it is the spirit that is experienced. That is why there exist contemplative souls who have lived more intensely, more widely, more tumultuously than others who have lived their lives purely externally. The end result is what matters. What one felt was what one experienced. One retires to bed as wearily from having dreamed as from having done hard physical labor. One never lives so intensely as when one has been thinking hard.”
“May we attribute to the color of the herbage and plants, which no doubt clothe the plains of Mars, the characteristic hue of that planet, which is noticeable by the naked eye, and which led the ancients to personify it as a warrior?”
“When the power, prestige, and financial support of government is placed behind a particular religious belief, the indirect coercive pressure upon religious minorities to conform to the prevailing officially approved religion is plain.”
“Youâ€™ve got to not only love yourself for who you are with all your mistakes, but youâ€™ve got to love the world for what it can bring you if you have the right attitude”

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