Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.
PAUL SIMONWhere have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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Anthony Heilbut has been a guide and a mentor to me. I know of no one who has the love and depth of knowledge of this extraordinary author.
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So I’ll continue to continue to pretend my life will never end, and flowers never bend with the rainfall.
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Someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire.
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It’s actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.
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Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.
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I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I’m through.
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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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One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor.
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These are the days of miracle and wonder.
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There’s something about the sound of a train that’s very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.
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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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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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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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Then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right, there must be fifty ways to leave your lover.
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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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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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The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.
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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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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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Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?
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There must be 50 ways to leave your lover.
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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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I’ve got nothing to do today but smile.
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Somewhere in a burst of glory / Sound becomes a song.
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Music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.
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