Simon & Garfunkel Quotes
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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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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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I like them all. … They're all pictures of me when I wrote them. … I have no favorite songs.
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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...
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Mrs. Robinson is a little dated now, but it has nothing to do with Joe DiMaggio.
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It's outrageous to line your pockets off the misery of the poor; It's outrageous, the crimes some human beings must endure.
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This is near enough true bliss.
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Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work.
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Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.
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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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Somewhere in a burst of glory / Sound becomes a song.
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Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way.
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If John Lennon is deported, I'm leaving too...with my musicians..and my marijuana.
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After all those years of automatic success, you don't get nervous any more. It's really necessary to be nervous and be a little bit frightened. It pumps the adrenalin into you and you really get down there and try.
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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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A songwriter's supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time.
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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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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.
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They've got a wall in China, it's a thousand miles long. To keep out the foreigners, they made it strong. And I've got a wall around me, you can't even see.
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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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Hide it in a hiding place where no one ever goes Put it in your pantry with your cupcakes.
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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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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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Records have images. There are wet records and dry records. And big records. 2