Paul Simon Quotes
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Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.
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The leaves that are green turn to brown. And they wither with the wind. And they crumble in your hand.
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Who am I to blow against the wind?
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The Wisdom is old, the Koran is old, the Bible is old. Disagreements? Work 'em out.
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And she said 'Losing love is like a window in your heart, Everybody sees you're blown apart, Everybody feels the wind blow.'
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I have my books and my poetry to protect me.
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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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Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.
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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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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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Medicine is magical and magical is art, the boy in the bubble, and the baby with the baboon heart.
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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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The phrasing didn't work as well.
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I'm always going forward toward something, and that something is usually an album, because I like to record. I probably like to record more than I like to write.
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...everything looks worse in black and white.
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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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I've got a reason to believe we all be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee.
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I didn't get how big it was until I went home, turned on the television and saw it on all the news, and later that night on the front pages of all the newspapers. Then I got 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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Who's gonna love you when your looks are gone?
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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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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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All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
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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.