Simon & Garfunkel Quotes
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Most of the time, the songs have jokes in them, little sarcastic things, or purposely kitsch or something. So that's going along with a story, like I do in life, just talking to myself and making fun of stuff and laughing at stuff that's serious. And sometimes it's a good idea to put the laughing into the songs. Sometimes it's not. Sometimes it's all right just to be serious. But most of the songs have some kind of joke in them.
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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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The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.
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Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.
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Being an artist doesn't mean that you're a good artist. That was the bargain I first made with myself: I'd say, I'm an artist, but I'm not really very good.
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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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By the time I was 12 or 13, I felt that I was special, because I could play the guitar and write songs.
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I have my books and my poetry to protect me.
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She said a good day ain't got no rain She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed And I think of things that might have been.
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There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.
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Who's gonna love you when your looks are gone?
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I don't feel any pressure from fans. But I'm always in some kind of state of emotional turmoil. I would not describe myself as happy-go-lucky. That's not to say that I'm not happy.
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Medicine is magical and magical is art, the boy in the bubble, and the baby with the baboon heart.
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I regret the ending of our friendship and hope one day before we die, we'll make peace with each other . . . No rush.
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To get the stuff out of you, especially if what you're dealing with is yourself, requires you to open up and touch tender spots. You have to be anesthetized a little bit.
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The phrasing didn't work as well.
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And so you see I have come to doubt -All that I once held as true ~ I stand alone without beliefs -The only truth I know is you.
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We had many more points of agreement than we had points of difference, but we did differ, and the bigger we got, the more insistent we got that each one of us should have his way.
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Philip Larkin didn't write for several years before his life ended. And when he was asked why he didn't write, he said the muse deserted him. And when I read that, it really had a profound effect upon me, sort of scared me. So that's why I think I have no right to assume that some thought is going to come... But I think, in my imagination, if it is it, there will probably be something else I'm interested in.
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The Wisdom is old, the Koran is old, the Bible is old. Disagreements? Work 'em out.
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Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.
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The abstract music is just more interesting because it doesn't really have anything to say, but if it is good, it creates thoughts and feelings, and I enjoy that. For me, once the music creates those thoughts and feelings, I begin to write a song about it.
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I don't really like to write at a desk. I like to write when driving in a car. ... Once you're working on it, you're working on it all the time, and sometimes stuff'll come in the middle of the night, in a dream or something. Your mind is working on it all the time.
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I've got a reason to believe we all be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee.