Paul Simon Quotes

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.

Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel

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• In English, the sounds and melodies I created were an inspiration to me, and words came to me as I explored the sounds, and from there I was able expand on the meaning.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • English
  • Inspiration
  • Meaning

• The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • People
  • Love
  • Marriage

• If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Real
  • Guy
  • You

• When you're listening to the radio, you're hearing dance beats, all the bells and whistles, and 'Say Something' makes you quiet and forces you to listen.

  

  Ian Axel
  • Dance
  • Listening
  • Quiet

• I know victims of domestic abuse. I know what it takes for people to get out, and I also know why people stay. It's heartbreaking.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • People
  • Why
  • Know

• You know what, I am not gonna lie, that Taylor Swift 'Trouble' song? I can't resist that song. Her melodies are very catchy.

  

  Jacob Artist
  • Song
  • Trouble
  • Resist

• It's very much a piece of myself when I write a song. I don't mean to say it's very personal, like the lyrics mean something personal to me. When I write a song, that's my taste in music – my taste in chord progressions and melodies.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Music
  • Song
  • Lyrics

• Poor people are too stupid to know they're just chess pieces in a game.

  

  Charles Barkley
  • People
  • Game
  • Stupid

• My father was a director and producer, so when I was a little kid, he would take me to movies and show me what's good and what's not good and why, and often that would take me to a conversation about directing.

  

  Jason Bateman
  • Good
  • Why
  • Father

• I had never really dated. I've always been a relationship kind of person.

  

  Bruce Willis
  • Relationship

• America is strongest when families take care of each other and walk with one another through need and loss.

  

  James Lankford
  • America

• There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

  

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

• Women account for about 70% of Africa's food production and manage a large proportion of small enterprises. They are also increasingly represented in legislative and executive leadership positions.

  

  Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
  • Women
  • Small
  • Food

• Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.

  

  Lillian Smith
  • Faith
  • Doubt
  • Unknown

• While I never served in uniform, I fully understand the great service and sacrifice that our brave men and women have given to our country.

  

  Marc Veasey
  • Great
  • Men
  • Women

• Consumers are empowered by Yelp and tools like it: before, when they had a bad experience, they didn't have much recourse. They could fume, but often nothing else other than tell their friends.

  

  Jeremy Stoppelman
  • Experience
  • Friends
  • Bad

• I tried to stick with what I knew best, which is writing rock n' roll songs and melodies. I am as passionate as I was when I was 20.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Rock

• When I've sent young men and women into harm's way, I always understand that that is the last resort, not the first resort.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Men
  • Women
  • Way

• It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That's where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head.

  

  Bono U2
  • Privilege
  • Studio
  • Servants

• There's fighters that sit down and wait two years, waiting for the call. I can't do that. Time's ticking.

  

  Dillian Whyte
  • Time
  • Wait
  • Call

• I've never been a person to share my private life, but I can help save lives.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Life
  • Help
  • Never

• Nonbelievers may hear all the notes of science, but without a theistic context and perspective they will not hear the song.

  

  George Marsden
  • Song
  • Perspective
  • Notes

• When I do something I have to do it all the way - that goes for music, with a high-hat, a snare drum, a rhyme, everything. I have to push it to the extreme. That's how I realized I have addictive behavior. Somebody told me this once, that the thing that makes me bad is the same thing that makes me good at other things.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Way
  • Behavior
  • Extremes

• 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.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Melodies
  • Correlation
  • Evoke