Paul Simon Quotes
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The more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh.
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The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.
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Was a sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. Not a negative word was heard.
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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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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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It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.
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To get the stuff out of you, especially if what you're dealing with is yourself, requires you to open up and touch tender spots. You have to be anesthetized a little bit.
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The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.
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She said a good day ain't got no rain She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed And I think of things that might have been.
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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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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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When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all.
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I don't like fashion. It's very heartless.
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I lived in an attached house. My father used to drive into the wrong driveway all the time. He'd say, Damn it, how do you tell one of these houses from another?
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It was easier than explaining DiMaggio's use as a metaphor.
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The risk of failure is part of the fun of what I do.
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Most of the time, the songs have jokes in them, little sarcastic things, or purposely kitsch or something. So that's going along with a story, like I do in life, just talking to myself and making fun of stuff and laughing at stuff that's serious. And sometimes it's a good idea to put the laughing into the songs. Sometimes it's not. Sometimes it's all right just to be serious. But most of the songs have some kind of joke in them.
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I don't really like to write at a desk. I like to write when driving in a car. ... Once you're working on it, you're working on it all the time, and sometimes stuff'll come in the middle of the night, in a dream or something. Your mind is working on it all the time.
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Couple in the next room bound to win a prize, they've been going at it all night long.
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Time it was And what a time it was, it was A time of innocence A time of confidences Long ago it must be I have a photograph Preserve your memories They're all that's left you.
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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.
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Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.
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Being an artist doesn't mean that you're a good artist. That was the bargain I first made with myself: I'd say, I'm an artist, but I'm not really very good.
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The problem is all inside your head, she said to me The answer is easy if you take it logically I'd like to help you in your struggle to be free There must be fifty ways to leave your lover.