Time, time, time, see what’s become of me, While I looked around, For my possibilities; I was so hard to please
PAUL SIMONWhere have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
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Someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire.
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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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Nor is it strange That after changes upon changes, we are more or less the same.
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I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It’s chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.
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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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People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.
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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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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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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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Maybe the heart is part of the mist. And that’s all that there is or could ever exist. Maybe and maybe and maybe some more. Maybe’s the exit that I’m looking for.
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You know, life is what you make of it- so beautiful or so what.
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Time it was And what a time it was, it was A time of innocence A time of confidences Long ago it must be I have a photograph Preserve your memories They’re all that’s left you.
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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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Somewhere in a burst of glory / Sound becomes a song.
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All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
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