Artie is a singer, and I’m a writer and player and a singer. We didn’t work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.
PAUL SIMONI would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won’t do is change the essence of my work.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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Someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire.
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Take me. I’m an ordinary player in the key of C. And my will was broken by my pride and my vanity. Who’s gonna love you when you’re looks are gone? God will. Like he waters the flowers on your window sill.
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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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Time, time, time, see what’s become of me, While I looked around, For my possibilities; I was so hard to please
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I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won’t do is change the essence of my work.
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There must be 50 ways to leave your lover.
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After all those years of automatic success, you don’t get nervous any more. It’s really necessary to be nervous and be a little bit frightened. It pumps the adrenalin into you and you really get down there and try.
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The dialogue between what’s going on in the world and what’s going on internally seems to be a natural thing – well, it’s natural to me, anyway, to have these thoughts.
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When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.
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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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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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One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor.
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Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard.
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All God requires from us is to enjoy life and love. That’s the whole point.
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The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.
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