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How can you live in the Northeast?
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel -
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.
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
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Who's gonna love you when your looks are gone?
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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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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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I have my books and my poetry to protect me.
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Some people never say the words ‘I love you’, for like a child they’re longing to be told.
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel -
The phrasing didn't work as well.
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
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The risk of failure is part of the fun of what I do.
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The Wisdom is old, the Koran is old, the Bible is old. Disagreements? Work 'em out.
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Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.
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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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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.
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel -
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.
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
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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.
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel -
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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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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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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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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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.
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
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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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All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
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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.
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel