Paul Simon Quotes
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My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It's the only thing I find interesting.
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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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Big box just wasn't our strength. We are a men's and boy's specialty store focused on providing high quality clothing with custom tailoring. Our customer is king. When we had seven stores, communication between the stores and with our customers became more disconnected. We started to lose that great family 'camaraderie' that is essentially the key to our success.
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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.
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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 want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I'm through.
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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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It's pointless to be critical of your stuff once it's done. I don't spend a lot of time agonising over it. It's of no importance once it's finished.
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The public hungers to see talented young people kill themselves.
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I rate each album as better than the last one. That's how I see it.
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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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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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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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I've got nothing to do today but smile.
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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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...what threatens us today in the world of computers and other invasions of privacy is not a national ID card but a number of other things.
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My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.
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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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I regret the ending of our friendship and hope one day before we die, we'll make peace with each other . . . No rush.
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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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There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.
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I get the news I need on the weather report And I have nothing to do today but smile.
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Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.
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Blessed are the sat upon, spat upon, ratted on.