Bill Balas:
CLASS OF 1973
Jefferson High SchoolClass of 1973
Cedar rapids, IA
Bill's Story
Bill is from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Bill's schools include Jefferson High School. Bill later attended Duquesne University (Music Education) , Point Park University (Bachelors in Business Managment) .
Music Bill likes includes Re-Cover, Joey Granati, X8 Drums. Books Bill likes include Ideas and Opinions, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, John Adams David Mccullough. Movies Bill likes include Blazing Saddles, Bringing Up Baby, Monty Python & the Holy Grail. TV shows Bill likes include Independent Lens | PBS, History, Ovation TV.
One of Bill's favorite quotes is:""I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most of all music, for the patterns of music and all the arts are the keys to learning." ~ Plato
"Without music life would be a mistake."
- Nietzsche
"Music is enough for a lifetime but a lifetime is not enough for music" - Rachmaninoff
"Life is lived forward, but understood backwards"
- Soren Kierkegaard
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t I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance. "
- Adlai Stevenson
"Jazz is not dead â it just smells funny."
- Frank Zappa
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
- Abraham Lincoln
"There is no limit to what can be accomplished when no one cares who gets credit." - John Wooden
"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."
- Winston Churchill
"Beauty is truth - truth beauty, that's all ye know on Earth and all ye need to know."
- Keats
"Life is not so short but that there is always time for courtesy"
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
â"Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them, and you have their shoes." - Frieda Norris
âTo stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.â - Aaron Copland".
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