Paul Simon Quotes
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I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.
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And a rock feels no pain; And an island never cries.
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I don't consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I'm growing.
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I met my old lover on the street last night. She seemed so glad to see me, I just smiled. Then we talked about some old times and we drank ourselves some beers, still crazy after all these years.
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I always get very calm with baseball.
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I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work.
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Elvis was the reason I picked up the guitar.
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She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy I said 'Be careful his bowtie is really a camera'
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And you read your emily dickinson, And I my robert frost. And we note our place with bookmarkers That measure what weve lost.
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Just slip out the back, Jack, make a new plan, Stan, you don't need to be coy, Roy, just get yourself free. Hop on the bus, Gus, you don't need to discuss much, just drop off the key, Lee, and get yourself free.
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Most of the time, when I had hits as a soloist - maybe not so much with Simon & Garfunkel - I was surprised they were hits. I didn't know what the hits were. I never thought that 'Loves Me Like A Rock' was going to be a hit, or 'Mother And Child Reunion,' or '50 Ways To Leave Your Lover.' They didn't sound like what the hits sounded like at the time. Radio was more open to things that weren't exactly what every other hit was.
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Rock 'n' roll really is not given to thinking - and resents thinking. Which I believe is the big error of rock 'n' roll. It's always aspired to be the music of the working class. And it's never been looked upon as a vocabulary for art and artistic thinking... We have to be able to expand the vocabulary to express more complex thoughts.
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The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
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I have my books And my poetry to protect me; I am shielded in my armor, Hiding in my room, safe within my womb. I touch no one and no one touches me. I am a rock, I am an island.
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These are the days of lasers in the jungle, staccato signals of constant information.
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I see a correlation between short stories and songs, because of their length and for what they're meant to evoke. Combine certain words with melodies and it all becomes very moving.
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Justice Stevens is one of those who are most sensitive to the least powerful in our society.
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Someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire.
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Two times two is twenty-two, four times four is forty-four. When numbers get serious, they leave a mark on your door.
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Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
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There are two sorts of people in the world: Those who listen and those who are thinking about what they are going to say next.
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We've survived by believing our life is going to get better.
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Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.
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So I'll continue to continue to pretend my life will never end, and flowers never bend with the rainfall.