Someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire.
PAUL SIMONAll God requires from us is to enjoy life and love. That’s the whole point.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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I don’t think [Dylan and the Beatles] influenced me a lot. I think it was inevitable; they were so powerful that you couldn’t really escape the influence.
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I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won’t do is change the essence of my work.
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The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.
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And you read your emily dickinson, And I my robert frost. And we note our place with bookmarkers That measure what we’ve lost.
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Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard.
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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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There is a moment, a chip in time, when leaving home is the lesser crime.
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If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you’ve created a special little thing, and that’s what I’m looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.
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Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.
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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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Take two bodies and you twirl them into one, their hearts and their bones, and they won’t come undone.
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Serious numbers will speak to us always.
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Maybe I think too much for my own good.
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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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I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don’t get sentimental. I think we’re all afraid to reveal our hearts. It’s not at all in fashion.
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