Paul Simon Quotes
My voice is my improvisational instrument, the melody instrument. The guitar is harmonic structure. I'm not a good enough guitarist to improvise on it.
Quotes to Explore
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When you hit your 40s, you begin to take notice of the effects of aging because people that you know begin to die of heart attacks and tumors, so we take notice of the effects of aging.
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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
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Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.
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What we want is to make something that fills utterly the sight and can't be used to make life only bearable.
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If you want to lead, you better love people. Even if you don't like them, you have to love them enough to tell them the truth.
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When I walked in to read with Edie Falco, it was nice, because I auditioned in New York, and it was very quick. You walk in, there's Edie, the producers, the director, and a camera. I read three scenes, and it was done.
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Protesters should make their own media and not rely on mainstream media to cover them.
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The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
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I bungee-jump, skydive, surf and snowboard.
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Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.
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Sports, as a media property, is increasingly valuable because it's something you have to have live. As a result, we're a better touch point for sponsors and advertisers because our commercials typically don't get zapped out.
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I try not to push myself too hard, but I also need to perform and earn the results.
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I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic.
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Making a film or doing a play are completely different experiences and entirely fulfilling, but completely unique. I also think one complements the other. People often say that theater is about flexing your muscles, and is actually real acting, whereas I sort of disagree.
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I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.
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I don't have time to be depressed.
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I've always wanted to be a professional golfer and I'm glad that came true.
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Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
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People said when I started, 'Why don't you just copy your father's style?' I had to be myself, singing my songs in my own way.
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You've got to remember that films don't lead the way. People think that films are trying to lead society. Mostly, they're reflecting the moods and thoughts that are going on in the country or around the world.
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It's the face and the body and the thing that we hide inside that can keep us from the world, but my voice is my voice.
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Silence is a profound melody, for those who can hear it above all the noise.
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My voice is my improvisational instrument, the melody instrument. The guitar is harmonic structure. I'm not a good enough guitarist to improvise on it.
