Paul Simon Quotes
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Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do.
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How can you live in the Northeast?
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I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don't get sentimental. I think we're all afraid to reveal our hearts. It's not at all in fashion.
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You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.
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In the clearing stands the boxer, and a fighter by his trade. And he carries a reminder of every glove that laid him down... or cut him till he cried out in his anger and his shame "I am leaving! I am leaving" but the fighter still remains.
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The public hungers to see talented young people kill themselves.
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It was the year of the Beatles, it was the year of the Stones, it was 1964.
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When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.
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It's very helpful to start with something that's true. If you start with something that's false, you're always covering your tracks. Something simple and true, that has a lot of possibilities, is a nice way to begin.
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The more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh.
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If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.
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Blessed are the sat upon, spat upon, ratted on.
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There are lots of really good guitarists, but they play with the same pedals that everybody else does. Everybody buys the same pedals, so the sounds tend to be the same. I am looking for different ways of doing that without having to spend days and weeks and months fooling around with pedals, which I don't enjoy.
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Was a sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. Not a negative word was heard.
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I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do.
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I've got nothing to do today but smile.
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Take two bodies and you twirl them into one, their hearts and their bones, and they won't come undone.
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I just said, you know, this is a great track but this lyric, I don't believe it. It sounds like I'm trying to say something, instead of it naturally coming out of me, like I was saying something that I already knew. Anyway, I can't remember what it was. And either I threw it all out or I threw 90 percent of it out, and kept a line or two. That's happened a couple of times to me. Not too often, but a couple of times. Very aggravating when it does happen.
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We're living in a certain time, and we're aware of it. And that's part of what we're aware of, along with our own personal aches and pains.
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My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.
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People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.
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The trick is, as I know it, is to care like hell and not give a damn at the same time.
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Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.
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Although I was able to study music with teachers, I never studied lyric writing. I read poetry, and I read other lyricists. But they were never writing in the style or the form that I was interested in.