Paul Simon Quotes
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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 phrasing didn't work as well.
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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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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 Wisdom is old, the Koran is old, the Bible is old. Disagreements? Work 'em out.
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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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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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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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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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Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.
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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 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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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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It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.
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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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All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
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I've got a reason to believe we all be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee.
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Artie travels all the time. The rehearsals were just miserable. Artie and I fought all the time. He didn't want to do the show with my band; he just wanted me on acoustic guitar.
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How much can you do with two voices? You can sing thirds or you can sing fifths or you can do a background harmony.
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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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...everything looks worse in black and white.
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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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You know, life is what you make of it- so beautiful or so what.