Simon & Garfunkel Quotes
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Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way.
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Mrs. Robinson is a little dated now, but it has nothing to do with Joe DiMaggio.
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I won't disturb the slumber of feelings that have died. If I never loved I never would have cried...I am a rock.
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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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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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In the tradition of great female artists, Karla Bonoff, Bonnie Raitt, Christine McVie, Shawn Colvin, Sarah McLachlan....now enter Maia Sharp.
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Somewhere in a burst of glory / Sound becomes a song.
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You jump right over anything in the past, and you don't analyze problems.
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Never mind the transience of show business and popularity. When we hear Ray Charles, we go, 'That's a great singer.' You don't need a reporter or a writer to tell us. Good is good and it should shine through the years.
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This is near enough true bliss.
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Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.
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The dialogue between what's going on in the world and what's going on internally seems to be a natural thing - well, it's natural to me, anyway, to have these thoughts.
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And the war rages on in a land called somewhere And Generals order their men to kill And to fight for a cause they've long ago forgotten While a little cloud weeps on the side of a hill.
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There is a moment, a chip in time, when leaving home is the lesser crime.
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If John Lennon is deported, I'm leaving too...with my musicians..and my marijuana.
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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 have images. There are wet records and dry records. And big records. 2
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A songwriter's supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time.
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Time, time, time, see what's become of me, While I looked around, For my possibilities; I was so hard to please
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She said, why don't we both just sleep on it tonight, And I believe, in the morning you'll begin to see the light. And then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right, There must be fifty ways to leave your lover, fifty ways to leave your lover.
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You sit and you let your fingers go to wherever they are going to go. You wait until you start to hear something, and you start to figure out what it is that you're doing. And then you add another piece next to that piece, and wait to see if some kind of pattern or something interesting starts to grow, and then you cultivate it.
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I think my hight had the most significant single effect on my existence, aside from my brain. In fact, it's part of an inferior-superior syndrome. I think I have an inferior brain and an inferior stature, if you really want to get brutal about it.