P. K. Page Quotes

When I started doing sessions, the guitar was in vogue. I was playing solos every day.

You know what you can gain when you sit down with the Moroccans. As a person and as a musician. That's how you grow.

I know what I want to get down and I haven't got much time to do it in.

You get as much out of rock & roll artistically as you put into it. There's nobody who can teach you. You're on your own and that's what I find so fascinating about it.

If you look at the people who have high impact, they have pretty general knowledge. They don't have a really narrowly focused education.

For me, privacy and security are really important. We think about it in terms of both: You can't have privacy without security.

It can be said unequivocally that good teaching is far more complex, difficult, and demanding than mediocre research, which may explain why professors try so hard to avoid it.

it follows that if you aren't happy with yourself, you won't be happy with others.

people have a way of laughing at our deams until we make them come true.

youth has everything - everything but experience and tolerance.

What I like about singing is that, for me, it's a substitute for the psychiatrist's couch.

I think you'll find, when you're married, that it isn't nearly so important for you to be interesting as it is to make your husband feel that he's interesting.

I always thought that Elvis could have been a great actor, and that he was put in a lot of unimportant movies when he could have done a lot of great ones.

On the radio I listen to the easy-listening stations, the jazz stations.

Each song, you're telling a story and acting.

Being able to sing all these years has helped me handle life's tragedies.

I can tell it all in song: pathos, gladness, love, joy, unhappiness.

The title of that great Christmas song was 'Boogie Woogie Santa Claus,' and no one ever heard of it.

My music was called plastic, antiseptic, placid.

A lot of the music, and especially rap, I don't understand.

I'm sure there are a lot of things I should have done differently. But I don't think I've stepped on anyone along the way. If I have, I didn't mean to.

I was stark raving mad, and my family was too polite to mention it. That's what living with the Yamanis does to people. They get so well-mannered they won't mention you're crazy.

But when I close my eyes, I'm more like THIS under the surface: I'm laughing and scheming and dreaming.

If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.

Mind you, Roman Holiday - which is kind of a romantic comedy - is one of my favorite films, and I think Audrey Hepburn is absolutely phenomenal in that movie.

Anything's possible. I am the proof.

I always think anything is possible.

Nobody believes in me more than me.

My mom moved up north to make more money to support the family, and I was left with my dad and I was just bounced around from one family to another.

I'm not looking to do anything for rehab as far as addicts, because that's not really what I do.

I help people own their lives.

I hate reality TV, because it's so bullshit.

It's like crazy how many different kinds of yoga there are. And now that they have it for surfers and for this one and for that one.

I wish I was a teenager in the 1970s.

I didn't really play dress up when I was a kid, and I'm really T-shirt and jeans-y.

I think it's obvious when you're watching a movie, and there's people fighting or someone's slipping on the side of the building, that it's fake and it really removes you from it.

I don't want to become unhealthily attached to what I do. I'm grateful for what I do, but I also want to be able to be OK when I'm not doing it.

I don't care if people like my character. I just want them to think about the movie's message.

Movies don't necessarily change culture. I don't know if we know for sure if movies change culture but we know for sure that they reflect culture.

It's just something we're talking about and thinking about all the time, reflecting on our privilege - the privilege of what it means even be able to travel.

By focusing on the community, you can learn more about the whole country.

I grew up working in Canada so everything was low budget.

The more time went by, the more something just happened, an Oh my god - I want to love someone freely and walk down the street and hold my girlfriend's hand.

Scientists and religious leaders, activists and first nation leaders, CEOs of corporations and actors, all of us need to come together right now, because the planet is in a lot of pain.

I think there's a tremendous amount of guilt that goes on between mothers and daughters, no matter how good or bad their relationships are.

I’m a huge fan of the program Democracy Now, which is hosted by Amy Goodman, and I subscribe to the podcast.

I'm not good at watching stuff that I'm in at all. I should stop. I shouldn't watch something for the first time with a room full of people at Sundance. It's not a good idea.

I think, because I've been working for a while, I've been working since I was ten, I had the fortune of reading a lot, a lot of scripts.

And I've shot in Prince Edward Island winters, I mean, I've shot in some intense, intense temperatures.

The quality most important to me, in the films I make, is honesty.