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

• A 1977 poll of American astronomers, published in JSE, showed the following. Out of 2611 questionnaires 1356 were returned. In response to whether the UFO problem deserved further study the replies were: 23% certainly, 30% probably, 27% percent possibly, 17% probably not, 3% certainly not. Interestingly, there was a positive correlation between the amount of reading done on the subject and the opinion that further study was in order.

  

  Bernard Haisch
  • Study
  • Correlation
  • Astronomers

• Psychology assumes that "things" are and "minds" are; and that, within certain limits determined by the so-called "nature" of both, they act causally upon each other.

  

  George Trumbull Ladd
  • Things
  • Act
  • Minds

• I’m going to explode,” she muttered. “Into a cloud of dust and despair.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Despair
  • Going To
  • Cloud

• When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.

  

  Bela Lugosi
  • Red
  • Film company

• The joke or the pratfall is easy for me to do.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Easy
  • Jokes

• 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