I feel I should try to reveal. When you hit it right, you produce an emotional response in the listener that can be cathartic. When you’re wrong, you’re soppy, sentimental.
PAUL SIMONThe abstract music is just more interesting because it doesn’t really have anything to say, but if it is good, it creates thoughts and feelings, and I enjoy that. For me, once the music creates those thoughts and feelings, I begin to write a song about it.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
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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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Losing love is like a window in your heart.
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I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don’t get sentimental. I think we’re all afraid to reveal our hearts. It’s not at all in fashion.
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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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I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I’m through.
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Somewhere in a burst of glory / Sound becomes a song.
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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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Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard.
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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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Then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right, there must be fifty ways to leave your lover.
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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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Just slip out the back, Jack, make a new plan, Stan, you don’t need to be coy, Roy, just get yourself free. Hop on the bus, Gus, you don’t need to discuss much, just drop off the key, Lee, and get yourself free.
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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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We’ve survived by believing our life is going to get better.
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People talking without speaking, People listening without hearing, Sounds of Silence.
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And so you see I have come to doubt -All that I once held as true ~ I stand alone without beliefs -The only truth I know is you
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The abstract music is just more interesting because it doesn’t really have anything to say, but if it is good, it creates thoughts and feelings, and I enjoy that. For me, once the music creates those thoughts and feelings, I begin to write a song about it.
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There is a moment, a chip in time, when leaving home is the lesser crime.
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And I must be what I must be and face tomorrow.
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A songwriter’s supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time.
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Who am I to blow against the wind?
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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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All I’ve got to do today is smile.
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There must be 50 ways to leave your lover.
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Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.
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