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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• 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.

  

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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.

  

  Bear Grylls
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• I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.

  

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  • Business
  • Responsibility
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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
  • Self
  • 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.

  

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  • Live
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  • Better

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

  

  Im Dong-Hyun
  • Myself
  • Try
  • Results

• I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic.

  

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  • Fashion
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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.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
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• I've always had a thing for old movies, old Hollywood. I've always just loved watching Marilyn Monroe and Greta Garbo. In all of those old movies from the '40s and '50s, women put themselves together so well, with a little bit of drama and elegance. That was fascinating to me growing up.

  

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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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  • Time
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• I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.

  

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• When I think of my Latina side, I imagine family barbecues with carne asada, rice, beans, tortillas and a jalapeno on my plate along with 'Vicente Fernandez' blaring out the speakers. Spicy food. Salsa. Tamales. Family.

  

  Alicia Sixtos
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• Desire suppressed finds its way into other more surreal settings, into dreams.

  

  Susan Minot
  • Desire
  • Dreams
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• I think, when I started writing songs, my voice just became another tool. It wasn't something that I was going to try desperately to woo a listener. As long as I'm using my voice in a way that helps people understand what I'm trying to say, then I feel like I'm doing all right.

  

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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