Paul Simon Quotes
Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.
Quotes to Explore
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When you celebrate, it's something that happens as a group. But when you mourn, sorrow is something that you handle as an individual.
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Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.
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The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
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I believe that music is God's voice.
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My music is in young people's lives because it's so much a part of their parents' lives.
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Dura est manus cirurgi, sed sanans. The hand of the surgeon is hard, but healing.
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We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.
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Sorrow burns up a great amount of shallowness.
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[Once plans for each eventuality are resolved, further] Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.
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And here am I, budding among the ruins with only sorrow to bite on, as if weeping were a seed and I the earth's only furrow.
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When I am completely united to You, there will be no more sorrow or trials; entirely full of You, my life will be complete.
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My heart is tuned to sorrow, and the strings Vibrate most readily to minor chords, Searching and sad; my mind is stuffed with words Which voice the passion and the ache of things: Illusions beating with their baffled wings Against the walls of circumstance.
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The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.
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Being honest is my job. That's what music is for me.
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Inopportune consolations increase a deep sorrow.
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Listening to Benny [Goodman] talk about the clarinet was like listening to a surgeon get hung up on a scalpel.
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Joy and sorrow are the light and shade of life; without light and shade no picture is clear.
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If I told you about a land of love, friend, would you follow me and come?
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The human comedy does not attract me enough. I am not entirely of this world. I am from elsewhere, and it is worth finding this elsewhere beyond the walls...but where is it?
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To feel the affection that comes from those whom we do not know ... widens out the boundaries of our being, and unites all living things.
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You lose so many material possessions being on the road. You can't get too attached to stuff and you have to remember that people must never become possessions. People are spheres intersecting. You have to make sure that one sphere doesn't ever take over the other. Individuality is absolutely the most important thing.
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Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.
