#some

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

#bits #exactly #fall #find #here

Now the big question is if you are going to go to all the trouble of setting an opera and making all that music and so on, there's got to be some aspect that you can do in an opera that really makes it worth while. ↗

— William Bolcom

#big #big question #go #going #got

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

#book #dealing #explore #got #honor

But maybe it's up in the hills under the leaves or in a ditch somewhere. Maybe it's never found. But what you find, whatever you find, is always only part of the missing, and writing is the way the poet finds out what it is he found. ↗

— Paul Engle

#ditch #find #finds #found #hills

And if you're getting a poll coming out month after month saying something and then all of a sudden does an enormous swing in one direction - you are dealing with a more volatile electorate than most people believe they have. ↗

— Jim Bolger

#believe #coming #dealing #direction #does

Nigel might have an earlier date, but I think it's unprecedented from my memory. So it is a reminder to everybody that the public can move very rapidly on some issues and therefore what looks settled may not be. ↗

— Jim Bolger

#earlier #everybody #i #i think #issues

So I think that we're in a very heightened and somewhat unusual period of politics and polling around the countries that New Zealanders take close interest in. ↗

— Jim Bolger

#close #countries #heightened #i #i think

I had made a decision early on that we were going to do the right things and that if they worked we were going to be very successful. And if for some reason they didn't, all the claims and the protestations and the excuses wouldn't make any difference. ↗

— John Engler

#claims #decision #difference #early #excuses

I think the way I play the guitar is very percussive. I play a lot of rhythm chops as though I were playing congas or something. ↗

— Tommy Bolin

#guitar #i #i think #lot #play

Sometimes it is better to begin the journey, to get under way, then it is to sit back and wait until such time that you're convinced that all conditions are perfect and that there'll be no surprises along the route. ↗

— John Engler

#back #begin #better #conditions #convinced