Paul Simon Quotes
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I have my books and my poetry to protect me.
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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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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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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 Wisdom is old, the Koran is old, the Bible is old. Disagreements? Work 'em out.
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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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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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Medicine is magical and magical is art, the boy in the bubble, and the baby with the baboon heart.
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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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All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
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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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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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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've got a reason to believe we all be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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How much can you do with two voices? You can sing thirds or you can sing fifths or you can do a background harmony.