I don't believe that a lot of the things I hear on the air today are going to be played for as long a time as Coleman Hawkins records or Brahms... →
Oscar Peterson
Synthesis is the process of making a natural product, or some other substance, artificially, in the lab, one step at a time, from extremely simple... →
Gregory Petsko
I don't know if nature is a direct literary influence on my writing, but it is certainly important to me. I take great joy in writing about it.... →
Per Petterson
'In the Wake' was a very bleak book. This relationship was not too good, the father and son. This time around, I wanted a father and a son... →
Living here where I live, on a farm way out in the countryside, in the woods, in fact, I have plenty of time to be alone, and I like it. I always... →
I developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it, and that became my... →
Tom Petty
I don't know, my music has always just come from where the wind blew me. Like where I'm at during a particular moment in time.
The great thing about the Wilburys was that none of us had to take the heat by ourselves. I was just a member of the band. Nobody felt like he was... →
The first time I tried to write was when I was 14, after I got an electric guitar. I put a song together, and it wasn't that bad! The writing... →
Wherefore the race being not to the swift, etc. but time and chance happening to all men, I leave the Judgement of the whole to the Candid, of whose... →
William Petty