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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

Paul Simon

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.
PAUL SIMON

Beginning Known See Writing Yourself
There’s something about the sound of a train that’s very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.
PAUL SIMON

Hope Nostalgia Romantic Sound Training
Then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right, there must be fifty ways to leave your lover.
PAUL SIMON

Herself Kiss Lover Myself Realize
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.
PAUL SIMON

Goodness Majority Myself Satisfaction Thinking
Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.
PAUL SIMON

Mystery Simplicity
Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.
PAUL SIMON

Chance Goodness Improvement Leave
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?
PAUL SIMON

Impossible Music Myself Song
We’ve survived by believing our life is going to get better.
PAUL SIMON

Believe Better Hope Life Survive
When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it’s a wonder I can think at all.
PAUL SIMON

Learning Myself Thinking Wonder
Somewhere in a burst of glory / Sound becomes a song.
PAUL SIMON

Burst Glory Song Sound
Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard.
PAUL SIMON

End Grave Result
Was a sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. Not a negative word was heard.
PAUL SIMON

Cloud Day Heard Sky Word
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.
PAUL SIMON

Creation Humor Lose Serious Time Yourself
Take two bodies and you twirl them into one, their hearts and their bones, and they won’t come undone.
PAUL SIMON

Body Bone Heart
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.
PAUL SIMON

Abstract Beginning Creation Interesting Music Song Writing
I regret the ending of our friendship and hope one day before we die, we’ll make peace with each other . . . No rush.
PAUL SIMON

Death Each Other Friendship Hope Peace Regret

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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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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