Paul Simon Quotes
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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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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 don't feel any pressure from fans. But I'm always in some kind of state of emotional turmoil. I would not describe myself as happy-go-lucky. That's not to say that I'm not happy.
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One of the things that upset me was some of the criticism leveled at Simon and Garfunkel. I always took exception to it, but actually I agree with a lot of it.
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I've got a reason to believe we all be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee.
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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.
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Who's gonna love you when your looks are gone?
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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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I don't believe what the papers are saying They're just out to capture my dime, Exaggerating this, exaggerating that.
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Medicine is magical and magical is art, the boy in the bubble, and the baby with the baboon heart.
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By the time I was 12 or 13, I felt that I was special, because I could play the guitar and write songs.
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The Wisdom is old, the Koran is old, the Bible is old. Disagreements? Work 'em out.
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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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The phrasing didn't work as well.
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I have my books and my poetry to protect me.
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I think Bridge Over Troubled Water was a very good song. Artie sang it beautifully. The Boxer was a really nice record. But I don't think I've written any great songs.
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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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Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.
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Who am I to blow against the wind?
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Philip Larkin didn't write for several years before his life ended. And when he was asked why he didn't write, he said the muse deserted him. And when I read that, it really had a profound effect upon me, sort of scared me. So that's why I think I have no right to assume that some thought is going to come... But I think, in my imagination, if it is it, there will probably be something else I'm interested in.
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I question what emotion Manilow touches. People are entertained by him. But are they emotionally moved? I don't believe anything that Barry Manilow sings.
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You know, life is what you make of it- so beautiful or so what.
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...everything looks worse in black and white.
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There must be 50 ways to leave your lover.