Simon & Garfunkel Quotes
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We're aware that it has resonance for the times, yes. But we chose it because it was the first hit we ever had, and it put sort of a bookend on our career.
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I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.
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And a rock feels no pain; And an island never cries.
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And you read your emily dickinson, And I my robert frost. And we note our place with bookmarkers That measure what weve lost.
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Rodgers and Hammerstein didn't mean anything to me. I just wanted to have a hit, I just wanted to be like those people on the radio. It was all of a case of the present tense with no projecting into the future, particularly.
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I don't consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I'm growing.
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So I'll continue to continue to pretend my life will never end, and flowers never bend with the rainfall.
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I met my old lover on the street last night. She seemed so glad to see me, I just smiled. Then we talked about some old times and we drank ourselves some beers, still crazy after all these years.
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She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy I said 'Be careful his bowtie is really a camera'
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Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough.
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I always get very calm with baseball.
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Then I would sing a little in the synagogue. See, if you're a singer, you love to turn your own ears on. You look for those rooms where the reverb is great. I remember the synagogue had a lot of wood and it was a great room. And it was a captive audience and you could sing these minor key songs and make them cry, and that was a thrill. 3
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I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work.
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Elvis was the reason I picked up the guitar.
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Just slip out the back, Jack, make a new plan, Stan, you don't need to be coy, Roy, just get yourself free. Hop on the bus, Gus, you don't need to discuss much, just drop off the key, Lee, and get yourself free.
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Someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire.
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Paul's the writer. Yeah, I wrote a little of that stuff, but that's just technically true. In spirit, and in essence of the truth, it doesn't matter. So I don't know, maybe I'm being foolish for not being technical. Yeah, I wrote a certain portion of the things.
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The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
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Most of the time, when I had hits as a soloist - maybe not so much with Simon & Garfunkel - I was surprised they were hits. I didn't know what the hits were. I never thought that 'Loves Me Like A Rock' was going to be a hit, or 'Mother And Child Reunion,' or '50 Ways To Leave Your Lover.' They didn't sound like what the hits sounded like at the time. Radio was more open to things that weren't exactly what every other hit was.
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Rock 'n' roll really is not given to thinking - and resents thinking. Which I believe is the big error of rock 'n' roll. It's always aspired to be the music of the working class. And it's never been looked upon as a vocabulary for art and artistic thinking... We have to be able to expand the vocabulary to express more complex thoughts.
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Paul is a very creative artist but I'm more that thorough, meticulous, disciplined nut.
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You have underestimated my power, as you will shortly discover.
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I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it.
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I don't really know why an idea comes to me. But all of a sudden, an idea comes and from experience I can intuit what something means when an interesting line pops up. Or I can intuit what an interesting choice might be. And I can try a couple of different choices, and see which one feels right, and then continue the song to see where it goes.