So I’ll continue to continue to pretend my life will never end, and flowers never bend with the rainfall.
PAUL SIMONYou know, life is what you make of it- so beautiful or so what.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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I don’t think [Dylan and the Beatles] influenced me a lot. I think it was inevitable; they were so powerful that you couldn’t really escape the influence.
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Maybe I think too much for my own good.
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Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard.
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I have my books and my poetry to protect me.
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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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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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Somewhere in a burst of glory / Sound becomes a song.
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The degree of customization possible through your Preferences screens is awesome.
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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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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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It’s actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.
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My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It’s the only thing I find interesting.
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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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I met my old lover on the street last night, she seemed glad to see me.
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The trick is, as I know it, is to care like hell and not give a damn at the same time.
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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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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.
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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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Take two bodies and you twirl them into one, their hearts and their bones, and they won’t come undone.
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Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.
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The more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh.
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People ask how I feel about getting old. I tell them I have the same question. I’m learning as I go.
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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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Losing love is like a window in your heart.
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She said a good day ain’t got no rain She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed And I think of things that might have been.
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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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