Paul Simon Quotes
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Sail on silver girl Sail on by Your time has come to shine All your dreams are on their way See how they shine Oh, if you need a friend I'm sailing right behind.
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Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.
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My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.
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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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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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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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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 like fashion. It's very heartless.
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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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I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I'm through.
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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 record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.
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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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There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.
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The risk of failure is part of the fun of what I do.
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We had many more points of agreement than we had points of difference, but we did differ, and the bigger we got, the more insistent we got that each one of us should have his way.
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Who's gonna love you when your looks are gone?
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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 phrasing didn't work as well.
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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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How can you live in the Northeast?
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The abstract music is just more interesting because it doesn't really have anything to say, but if it is good, it creates thoughts and feelings, and I enjoy that. For me, once the music creates those thoughts and feelings, I begin to write a song about 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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Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.