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.

Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel

• Voice
• Melody
• Harmonic Structure

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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.

  

  Larry Wall
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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.

  

  Ed Sheeran
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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.

  

  Sam Francis
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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.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
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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.

  

  Adam Ferrara
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• Protesters should make their own media and not rely on mainstream media to cover them.

  

  Naomi Wolf
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• The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.

  

  Bear Grylls
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• I bungee-jump, skydive, surf and snowboard.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Jump
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• Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Practice
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  • Meditation

• 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.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Live
  • Sports
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• I try not to push myself too hard, but I also need to perform and earn the results.

  

  Im Dong-Hyun
  • Myself
  • Try
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• I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic.

  

  Nate Lowman
  • Fashion
  • Wilderness
  • Connect

• 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.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
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• I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
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• I don't have time to be depressed.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Time
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• I've always wanted to be a professional golfer and I'm glad that came true.

  

  Karrie Webb
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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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• The head coach don't want no sissies, so he reads to us from something called Ulysses.

  

  Allan Sherman
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• A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
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• All of us with one voice call one God differently as Parmatma, Ishwara, Shiva, Vishnu, Rama, Allah, Khuda, Dada-Hormuzda, Jehova, God and an infinite variety of names.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Voice
  • Variety

• I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes. Now, to me, everything else just sounds like a lie.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Girl
  • Eye
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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.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Voice
  • Melody
  • Harmonic Structure