Simon & Garfunkel Quotes
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I don't know what I'm going to write when I begin to write. It feels like you are walking down a path, but you can't see around the bend and you don't know where you are going to go, which is fun.
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I did have a lucky thing going on there in my throat.
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All I've got to do today is smile.
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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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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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Everything worth doing starts with being scared.
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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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All God requires from us is to enjoy life and love. That's the whole point.
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Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Don't want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard.
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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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Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work.
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You jump right over anything in the past, and you don't analyze problems.
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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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Mrs. Robinson is a little dated now, but it has nothing to do with Joe DiMaggio.
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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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Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way.
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I like them all. … They're all pictures of me when I wrote them. … I have no favorite songs.