Paul Simon Quotes
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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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The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.
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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've got a reason to believe we all be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee.
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The Wisdom is old, the Koran is old, the Bible is old. Disagreements? Work 'em out.
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Who's gonna love you when your looks are gone?
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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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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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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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Medicine is magical and magical is art, the boy in the bubble, and the baby with the baboon heart.
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The phrasing didn't work as well.
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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 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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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 have my books and my poetry to protect me.
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Who am I to blow against the wind?
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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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...everything looks worse in black and white.
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Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.
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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'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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You know, life is what you make of it- so beautiful or so what.
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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.