Simon & Garfunkel Quotes
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Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.
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Records have images. There are wet records and dry records. And big records.
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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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Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
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I have the feeling that in a balanced life one should die penniless. The trick is dismantling.
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When I first heard Elvis perform "Bridge Over Trouble Water" it was unbelivable,and I thought to myself, how the hell can I compete with that?
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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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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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Yes, I like that word. "More" is a prayer to God, isn't it? Gratitude and plea, all in one.
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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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All God requires from us is to enjoy life and love. That's the whole point.
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Everything worth doing starts with being scared.
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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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Don't want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard.
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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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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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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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Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work.
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I like them all. … They're all pictures of me when I wrote them. … I have no favorite songs.
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Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way.
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People ask how I feel about getting old. I tell them I have the same question. I'm learning as I go.
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Mrs. Robinson is a little dated now, but it has nothing to do with Joe DiMaggio.
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Somewhere in a burst of glory / Sound becomes a song.
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I am just a poor boy, though my story's seldom told, and I have squandered my resistance, for a pocket full of mumbles, such are promises. All lies in jest, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest...la-la-la-la-la-la-la-lala-la-la-la-la...