Somewhere in a burst of glory / Sound becomes a song.
PAUL SIMONI’m laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone, Going home, where the new york city winters aren’t bleedin’ me.
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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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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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Maybe I think too much for my own good.
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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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Take two bodies and you twirl them into one, their hearts and their bones, and they won’t come undone.
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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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Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do.
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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.
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Who am I to blow against the wind?
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Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
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Serious numbers will speak to us always.
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Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.
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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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Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.
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It’s actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.
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