Paul Simon Quotes
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It was easier than explaining DiMaggio's use as a metaphor.
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My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.
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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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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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Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.
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Time, time, time, see what's become of me, While I looked around, For my possibilities; I was so hard to please
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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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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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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 risk of failure is part of the fun of what I do.
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How can you live in the Northeast?
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Who's gonna love you when your looks are gone?
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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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You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.
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The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.
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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 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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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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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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I have my books and my poetry to protect me.
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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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And so you see I have come to doubt -All that I once held as true ~ I stand alone without beliefs -The only truth I know is you.