Simon & Garfunkel Quotes
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It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.
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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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There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.
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The risk of failure is part of the fun of what I do.
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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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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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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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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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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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The leaves that are green turn to brown. And they wither with the wind. And they crumble in your hand.
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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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And she said 'Losing love is like a window in your heart, Everybody sees you're blown apart, Everybody feels the wind blow.'
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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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One of the things that upset me was some of the criticism leveled at Simon and Garfunkel. I always took exception to it, but actually I agree with a lot of it.
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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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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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Medicine is magical and magical is art, the boy in the bubble, and the baby with the baboon heart.
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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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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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The Wisdom is old, the Koran is old, the Bible is old. Disagreements? Work 'em out.
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I don't believe what the papers are saying They're just out to capture my dime, Exaggerating this, exaggerating that.
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I have my books and my poetry to protect me.
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Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.