P.J. Gordon Quotes

I'm really nostalgic for Malibu area because I've spent so much time there. People don't think of California as having a history.

I mean, I don't even think of myself as a musician, really.

For me performing has a lot to do with being fearless.

In The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson turns 'making the personal public' into a romantic, intellectual wet dream. A gorgeous book, inventive, fearless, and full of heart.

I tend to want to listen to melancholy music, but sometimes if you're feeling too sad, you can't.

No one talks about woman power. The Spice Girls - they're masquerading as little girls. It's repulsive.

I just happened to start playing music for the conceptual ideas.

I'm actually a little comic nerd myself.

As soldiers we have few saving graces. Perhaps our willingness to die for what we believe in is all that matters.

Begin thinking of death and you are no longer sure of your life. It's a Hebrew proverb.

A dead martyr is just another corpse.

The blues is also existential and offers a sense of mature reflection that enabled it to be the leitmotif of modern life.

I learned two basic lessons on Everest. First, just because something has worked in the past does not mean it will work today. Second, different challenges require different mindsets.

Ultimately I wanted to be a pioneer swimmer, a distant descendant of Scott, Amundsen and Hillary, except that I would be an explorer of the water.

Whether histories have a happy ending or not depends on when the chronicler ends the tale.

The idea in collaborative bargaining is to negotiate without making concessions to each other, by looking for joint-gain options instead.

People who are difficult, whether they're getting their $10 million or $10,000, are going to be difficult no matter what. It really just depends on the person.

I'm not really satisfied with anything I have written to date.

It does make sense to put on some songs that are relatively short, because radio usually only plays songs that are less than 4 or 5 minutes.

I've written some poetry, but...songs have to be more poetic, and I've really gotten to this non-poetic sort of writing.

I like referring to the saxophone and having a guitar lick instead. Same with the cymbals; having the cymbals and not playing cymbals.

I guess there are two things that make me like songs generally, of ours, and that is if they groove well, or if they have a jam that can go somewhere.

As long as we keep learning new music and getting better musically, there's a good chance that the record deal won't change anything.

Actually, it's great to play with someone who tries to come up with interesting drum beats because it pushes the music in different directions.

I feel like I want to write some songs and I don't know how to go about doing it. Usually it's the lyrics that are a problem, and I think I am not really cut out to be a lyricist.

I haven't written enough songs to be able to say that I have a system. I've only written a handful.

By day each soul must walk within its shadow. Only night can make us whole again.

Love of life at times requires death

Given angel's wings, where might you fly? In what sweet heaven might you find your love? Unwilling to be bound, where might you move, Lost between the wonder and the why?

Sixty years is cause enough to sing In celebration of a gentle life! To the mother and the wife, Taking pleasure in what love might bring, Yearning for what's worth the treasuring.

I'm sure that Donald Trump's praise would lead to good relations with Vladimir Putin. But I think that's not what the American people expect from our foreign policy.

Secretary Hillary Clinton for four years was part of a policy of resetting Russian relations with Russia in our interests.

I'm sure the way to be happy is to live well beyond your means!

If you're thinking of becoming a critic, why not make other plans?

The good that men do lives after them.

The real threat to Linux adoption is Apple, not Microsoft. If you didn't know, now you know.

No man's hand has ever yet reached up to take as much as the Pierced Hand is reaching down to give.

The way from God to a human heart is through a human heart.

The men who seem to know most of God's power have had great, unspeakable longings, at times, for a fresh consciousness of that power.

Ideals are like tuning forks: sound them often to bring your life up to standard pitch.

I have a healthy amount of humility.

Some of the best ideas come sort of out of nowhere and when you're not expecting it.

I think unintentionally I gravitate towards concepts and topics that hit home or are something real we can all relate to.

I like to approach comedy from character, to have the stakes for the individuals in the story be very high.

I'm a bit of a hacker fanatic and know a fair bit about that industry and cyber crime and cyber warfare.

I'm really interested in stories about identity - who I am now versus who I used to be.

My folks are economists and have taught economics and social science so I grew up with those kind of conversations around the dinner table.

The best movies are rooted in reality.

There's no longer a monolithic evil empire somewhere, spreading a different philosophy of life. That doesn't exist.

When you're making a film all by yourself, that requires you to have quite a bit of a point of view in order for anything to get done.