Simon & Garfunkel Quotes
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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.
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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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It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.
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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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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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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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There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.
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The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.
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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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The risk of failure is part of the fun of what I do.
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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 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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Who's gonna love you when your looks are gone?
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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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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 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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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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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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I've got a reason to believe we all be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee.
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The Wisdom is old, the Koran is old, the Bible is old. Disagreements? Work 'em out.
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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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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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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.