A songwriter’s supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time.
PAUL SIMONSomeone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire.
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When I first heard Elvis perform “Bridge Over Trouble Water” it was unbelivable,and I thought to myself, how the hell can I compete with that?
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I don’t very often think I’ve done a good job. I don’t like the majority of what I do. I shouldn’t say I don’t like it, but I’m not satisfied with almost everything that I do.
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If you’ll be my body guard, I can be your long lost pal.
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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.
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Losing love is like a window in your heart.
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I don’t know what I’m going to write when I begin to write. It feels like you are walking down a path, but you can’t see around the bend and you don’t know where you are going to go, which is fun.
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The course of a lifetime runs/over and over again.
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All God requires from us is to enjoy life and love. That’s the whole point.
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I’ve got nothing to do today but smile.
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The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take 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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I’m laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone, Going home, where the new york city winters aren’t bleedin’ me.
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Time, time, time, see what’s become of me, While I looked around, For my possibilities; I was so hard to please
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We’re living in a certain time, and we’re aware of it. And that’s part of what we’re aware of, along with our own personal aches and pains.
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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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