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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.

Paul Simon

I don’t feel any pressure from fans. But I’m always in some kind of state of emotional turmoil. I would not describe myself as happy-go-lucky. That’s not to say that I’m not happy.
PAUL SIMON

Description Fans Feeling Happiness Myself Pressure State
It was the year of the Beatles, it was the year of the Stones, it was 1964.
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Age Time
Was a sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. Not a negative word was heard.
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Cloud Day Heard Sky Word
I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I’m through.
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Angry Heart Jealous Myself Soul
A songwriter’s supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time.
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Challenge Simplicity Supreme Time
When I first heard Elvis perform “Bridge Over Trouble Water” it was unbelivable,and I thought to myself, how the hell can I compete with that?
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Impossible Music Myself Song
The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
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Silence Sound Word Writing
I don’t consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I’m growing.
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Growth Hope Myself Talent
There are two sorts of people in the world: Those who listen and those who are thinking about what they are going to say next.
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People Silence Talk Thinking
Who am I to blow against the wind?
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Blow Myself Wind
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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Emotion Fashion Heart Open Reality
I stepped outside to smoke a J and when I came back to the room, everybody just seemed to move.
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Move Myself Room Smoke
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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Existence Heart Myself
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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Carry Clear Fight Myself Reminder Shame Stand
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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Beginning Known See Writing Yourself
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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Feeling Guitar Play Song Time Writing

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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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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