P. K. Page Quotes

Later after college I discovered Gang of Four, Buzzcocks, and those kind of bands. My tastes have changed but I still carry a lot of the influences from my youth.

I was into jazz even when I was a kid. My parents would play Ella Fitzgerald, George Shearing, and Dixieland music. I loved The Monkees, The Beatles, The Eagles, and America.

We did a really cool video for this song [Milquetoast] with Alex Winter from Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure fame. He's an extremely intelligent guy. Butch Vig also did a mix for The Crow movie.

People are always going to have favorite albums or songs and you know that's more the listener's personal bias than basing it on anything musical or actual. I'm the same way as a listener.

You never know where your influences are going to come from, or where you're going to find your inspiration.

If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.

I didn't have bands that I was playing with growing up, so I learned to try to adapt and play these songs that were guitar songs on the piano, and sing them.

Limitations imply possibilities. A problem is a challenge.

You'll never have a garden - a garden needs walls and you have no walls.

The Internet is awesome because it's...there.

I sometimes think 'Gordon' must be the most bootlegged album in U.S history, since it sold only 200,000 copies in the country, yet 800,000 kids know the words to every song.

I don't think a celebrity endorsement gets you a vote, but it opens the door for you to hear the appeal of the candidate.

There's no confirmation process for the staffers that the president puts around him at the White House. Those are the people he chooses to have around him and to listen to.

I would rather be wise and than right and ignorant.

Quest assignments are never wrong.

My boy, many people know many things. But the things we think we know of others can only become what is known if the others choose to do the doing of making what we think we know known.

No other thing or no other person is going to make me happy in life, I just have to do that myself.

Smile is a power someone cannot defeat.

The love I see in this world is hate and prejudices.

Spend the beautiful days of your life to someone you want to spend with until your last breath.

God, this is why I can never live with women. They go off into corners and think, maybe it’s this, maybe it’s that. Ask, woman. Ask.

You've got to capture as much of the room sound as possible. That's the very essence of it.

Every book was a door

Billionaires’ working hours are twenty-four seven. They don’t wait till Monday.

Marriage is a partnership, not a corporate venture.

You won't know what "success" means if you don't appreciate what "hardwork" is.

But even if every house looked identical-if all the furnishings were the same- it still wouldn't feel like yours.That's because home isn't where you are. It's who you're with.

Having children is a lottery and you never know what you are going to draw out. Perhaps it is as well I got none.

I have seen enormous changes. I have not seen enough change. I, too, can hardly wait.

I would much rather have my grotesque products of the imagination compared to your delusional sanity.

Creativity is choice-making.

A right word counts the silence

Every woman deserves to be handled like a princess, She just needs to find her prince.

Life will throw all kinds of obstacles our way. It's our job to scramble over them and hunt for the little miracles tucked away, then leave some reminders for the people that follow behind us.

As soon as we open our eyes in the morning, what we want most is to matter, to live a life and to do a work that has meaning. We have evolved to feel this way. Man's first thought was 'I AM'.

That’s a bit sweeping. Sometimes it takes a while to find out how good or bad something has been.

Waking up in India is like waking up to life itself.

My need to parent is so much bigger, sometimes, than my children’s need for parenting.

When life gives you lemons, put your lipstick on!

It seemed possible to me, in the dry heat of that courtroom, that heaven was a metaphor for the grace of perspective you get when you die

Anger was better than weeping.

K.I.S.SKeep. It. Simple. Stupid.

Silence gradually spread its great, fragile butterfly wings across the ward. The sun had disappeared, replaced by grey and rain. This particular month of July was reading the script for March.

We are all bodybuilders, so build the house you want to live in.

The most powerful control we can ever attain, is to be in control of ourselves.

Karibu, dada wangu. Hapa, wewe ni nyumbani. Welcome, my sister. Here, you are home. Home. And to this home, may you always return.

Failure has a hacksaw to my anklesand right now there is nothingI want more than to learnhow to walk on my hands.

I am a poem in progresswith no clear beginning or endingjust a middleuntended, unintended, unfinished, hanging therelike the breath before a question

It's like she wears an "I'm-always-happy" mask. I used to play along.

I had forgotten such innocence exists, /forgotten how it feels/ to live with neither calendars nor clocks