Simon & Garfunkel Quotes
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It was the year of the Beatles, it was the year of the Stones, it was 1964.
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Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.
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The trick is, as I know it, is to care like hell and not give a damn at the same time.
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How can you live in the Northeast?
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Life I love you, all is groovy.
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I lived in an attached house. My father used to drive into the wrong driveway all the time. He'd say, Damn it, how do you tell one of these houses from another?
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People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.
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The problem is all inside your head, she said to me The answer is easy if you take it logically I'd like to help you in your struggle to be free There must be fifty ways to leave your lover.
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I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do.
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Take two bodies and you twirl them into one, their hearts and their bones, and they won't come undone.
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Couple in the next room bound to win a prize, they've been going at it all night long.
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Time it was And what a time it was, it was A time of innocence A time of confidences Long ago it must be I have a photograph Preserve your memories They're all that's left you.
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In the clearing stands the boxer, and a fighter by his trade. And he carries a reminder of every glove that laid him down... or cut him till he cried out in his anger and his shame "I am leaving! I am leaving" but the fighter still remains.
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The leaves that are green turn to brown. And they wither with the wind. And they crumble in your hand.
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Although I was able to study music with teachers, I never studied lyric writing. I read poetry, and I read other lyricists. But they were never writing in the style or the form that I was interested in.
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When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all.
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I don't like fashion. It's very heartless.
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I just said, you know, this is a great track but this lyric, I don't believe it. It sounds like I'm trying to say something, instead of it naturally coming out of me, like I was saying something that I already knew. Anyway, I can't remember what it was. And either I threw it all out or I threw 90 percent of it out, and kept a line or two. That's happened a couple of times to me. Not too often, but a couple of times. Very aggravating when it does happen.
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You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.
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My voice is my improvisational instrument, the melody instrument. The guitar is harmonic structure. I'm not a good enough guitarist to improvise on it.
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It was easier than explaining DiMaggio's use as a metaphor.
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...what threatens us today in the world of computers and other invasions of privacy is not a national ID card but a number of other things.
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My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.
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The risk of failure is part of the fun of what I do.