Somewhere in a burst of glory / Sound becomes a song.
PAUL SIMONAnd she said ‘Losing love is like a window in your heart, Everybody sees you’re blown apart, Everybody feels the wind blow.’
More Paul Simon Quotes
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Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.
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Serious numbers will speak to us always.
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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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Who am I to blow against the wind?
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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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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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Life I love you, all is groovy.
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I’m always going forward toward something, and that something is usually an album, because I like to record. I probably like to record more than I like to write.
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How much can you do with two voices? You can sing thirds or you can sing fifths or you can do a background harmony.
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I met my old lover on the street last night, she seemed glad to see me.
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The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
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We’ve survived by believing our life is going to get better.
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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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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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People ask how I feel about getting old. I tell them I have the same question. I’m learning as I go.
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