Paul Simon Quotes
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I rate each album as better than the last one. That's how I see it.
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I sort of recognize it, as opposed to shaping it. Oh, that's a good idea, that's a good line. I wonder where I can use that. And when you get into a rhyme group like 'not,' you got a lot of rhymes, you got a lot of choices. The more you do it, the luckier you get.
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How can you live in the Northeast?
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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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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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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 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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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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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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Was a sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. Not a negative word was heard.
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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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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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Some people never say the words ‘I love you’, for like a child they’re longing to be told.
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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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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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Take two bodies and you twirl them into one, their hearts and their bones, and they won't come undone.
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The more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh.
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Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.
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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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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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...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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Blessed are the sat upon, spat upon, ratted on.
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I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I'm through.