Given all the facts that I’m young and I’m in good health and I’m famous – that I have talent, I have money – given all these facts, I want to know why I’m so unhappy.
PAUL SIMONIt was the year of the Beatles, it was the year of the Stones, it was 1964.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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Life I love you, all is groovy.
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I feel I should try to reveal. When you hit it right, you produce an emotional response in the listener that can be cathartic. When you’re wrong, you’re soppy, sentimental.
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Far above the golden clouds, the darkness vibrates. The earth is blue. And everything about it is a love song. Everything about it.
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Was a sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. Not a negative word was heard.
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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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I met my old lover on the street last night, she seemed glad to see me.
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After all those years of automatic success, you don’t get nervous any more. It’s really necessary to be nervous and be a little bit frightened. It pumps the adrenalin into you and you really get down there and try.
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How can you live in the Northeast?
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In the clearing stands the boxer, and a fighter by his trade. And he carries a reminder of every glove that laid him down, or cut him till he cried out in his anger and his shame “I am leaving! I am leaving” but the fighter still remains.
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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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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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I don’t consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I’m growing.
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When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.
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One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor.
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Nor is it strange That after changes upon changes, we are more or less the same.
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