Paul Simon Quotes
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The problem is all inside your head, she said to me The answer is easy if you take it logically I'd like to help you in your struggle to be free There must be fifty ways to leave your lover.
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I lived in an attached house. My father used to drive into the wrong driveway all the time. He'd say, Damn it, how do you tell one of these houses from another?
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I don't like fashion. It's very heartless.
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It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.
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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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The phrasing didn't work as well.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Medicine is magical and magical is art, the boy in the bubble, and the baby with the baboon heart.
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And I must be what I must be and face tomorrow.
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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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I have my books and my poetry to protect me.
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I've got a reason to believe we all be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee.
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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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Who am I to blow against the wind?
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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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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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All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
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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.