Simon & Garfunkel Quotes
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There are lots of really good guitarists, but they play with the same pedals that everybody else does. Everybody buys the same pedals, so the sounds tend to be the same. I am looking for different ways of doing that without having to spend days and weeks and months fooling around with pedals, which I don't enjoy.
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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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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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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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I've got nothing to do today but smile.
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We're living in a certain time, and we're aware of it. And that's part of what we're aware of, along with our own personal aches and pains.
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Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.
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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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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 trick is, as I know it, is to care like hell and not give a damn at the same time.
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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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...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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Some people never say the words ‘I love you’, for like a child they’re longing to be told.
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It was easier than explaining DiMaggio's use as a metaphor.
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I get the news I need on the weather report And I have nothing to do today but smile.
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I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I'm through.
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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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The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.
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I don't like fashion. It's very heartless.
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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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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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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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Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.