Simon & Garfunkel Quotes
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I like working solo and it was a lot of fun joking around with the audience, saying things. I'm only just learning how to do certain things.
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...music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.
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I'm going to Graceland, for reasons I cannot explain. There's some part of me wants to see Graceland. And I may be advised to defend every love, every ending, or maybe there's no obligations now. Maybe I've a reason to believe we all will be received in Graceland.
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Justice Stevens is one of those who are most sensitive to the least powerful in our society.
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I did three and a half years in the architecture school with no real love or feel for it. After quite a while I realized I don't like to pick up a pen and freely sketch and let my imagination run towards structures. And if I don't have that natural desire, what am I doing here? How did I let this illusion go on so long?
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By my 40s, I finally got out of my own way, so I could become a life creator; a life giver.
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As soon as your mind knows that it's on and it's supposed to produce some lines, either it doesn't or it produces things that are very predictable. And that's why I say I'm not interested in writing something that I thought about. I'm interested in discovering where my mind wants to go, or what object it wants to pick up.
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I did have a lucky thing going on there in my throat.
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After all these years, I'm finally into soccer. The World Cup is on, and my band is an international group - they're all around me, cheering in the hotel bars.
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Two times two is twenty-two, four times four is forty-four. When numbers get serious, they leave a mark on your door.
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Don't want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard.
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Yes, I like that word. "More" is a prayer to God, isn't it? Gratitude and plea, all in one.
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Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
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All God requires from us is to enjoy life and love. That's the whole point.
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All I've got to do today is smile.
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There are two sorts of people in the world: Those who listen and those who are thinking about what they are going to say next.
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Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's pleasure, but you don't get wiped out.
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To the extreme. Dylan was the coolest thing in the country. If you were a young person at that age, maybe you don't go for Dylan's gravelly style voice, but who he was and how different and bold his lyrics were, and his look, that was the closest thing the record business had to James Dean.
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I don't think that Simon and Garfunkel as a live act compares to Simon and Garfunkel as a studio act.
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New York, you got money on your mind. And my words won't make a dime's worth a difference, so here's to you New York.
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They say in the darkest night there is a light beyond
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We human beings are tuned such that we crave great melody and great lyrics. And if somebody writes a great song, it's timeless that we as humans are going to feel something for that and there's going to be a real appreciation. 1
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There was always some kind of strain, but it was workable. The bigger you get, the more of a strain it is, because in your everyday life, you're less used to compromising. As you get bigger, you have your own way. But in a partnership you always have to compromise. … When you get into a partnership, you're not the boss. There's no boss. That makes it hard.
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You jump right over anything in the past, and you don't analyze problems.