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.
PAUL SIMONAnd 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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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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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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Take me. I’m an ordinary player in the key of C. And my will was broken by my pride and my vanity. Who’s gonna love you when you’re looks are gone? God will. Like he waters the flowers on your window sill.
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Was a sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. Not a negative word was heard.
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Somewhere in a burst of glory / Sound becomes a song.
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If you’ll be my body guard, I can be your long lost pal.
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I’ve got nothing to do today but smile.
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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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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.
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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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I like them all. They’re all pictures of me when I wrote them. I have no favorite songs.
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Time it was And what a time it was, it was A time of innocence A time of confidences Long ago it must be I have a photograph Preserve your memories They’re all that’s left you.
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I’ve got a reason to believe we all be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee.
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A songwriter’s supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time.
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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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And I must be what I must be and face tomorrow.
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Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.
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Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard.
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One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor.
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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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There is a moment, a chip in time, when leaving home is the lesser crime.
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There are two sorts of people in the world: Those who listen and those who are thinking about what they are going to say next.
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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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Take two bodies and you twirl them into one, their hearts and their bones, and they won’t come undone.
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Who am I to blow against the wind?
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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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