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 SIMONAll lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.
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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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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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A songwriter’s supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time.
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She said a good day ain’t got no rain She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed And I think of things that might have been.
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Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.
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I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.
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Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?
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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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It’s very helpful to start with something that’s true. If you start with something that’s false, you’re always covering your tracks. Something simple and true, that has a lot of possibilities, is a nice way to begin.
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The course of a lifetime runs/over and over again.
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I have my books and my poetry to protect me.
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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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Sail on silver girl Sail on by Your time has come to shine All your dreams are on their way See how they shine Oh, if you need a friend I’m sailing right behind.
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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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