If you’ll be my body guard, I can be your long lost pal.
PAUL SIMONIt was easier than explaining DiMaggio’s use as a metaphor.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor.
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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.
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You know, life is what you make of it- so beautiful or so what.
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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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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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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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Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.
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I’ve got nothing to do today but smile.
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And I must be what I must be and face tomorrow.
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My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It’s the only thing I find interesting.
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Losing love is like a window in your heart.
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We’ve survived by believing our life is going to get better.
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I’ve got a reason to believe we all be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee.
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We work our jobs, collect our pay, believe were gliding down the highway, when in fact we’re slip sliding away.
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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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You want to be a writer, don’t know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.
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Music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.
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It was the year of the Beatles, it was the year of the Stones, it was 1964.
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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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All God requires from us is to enjoy life and love. That’s the whole point.
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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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A lot of talent is a gift, but a lot is also luck. I’m very aware of that. I was born in the right place at the right time. I am also blessed because I’ve never been a sex symbol. I’m spared the embarrassment of acting young.
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Cecilia was made in a living room on a Sony. It was like a little piece of magical fluff, bur it works. El Condor Pasa a Los Incas record that I love. Bridge is a very strong melodic song.
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Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.
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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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She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy I said ‘Be careful his bowtie is really a camera’
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