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.
PAUL SIMONWas a sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. Not a negative word was heard.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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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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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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The phrasing didn’t work as well.
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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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Take two bodies and you twirl them into one, their hearts and their bones, and they won’t come undone.
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I’m laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone, Going home, where the new york city winters aren’t bleedin’ me.
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Somewhere in a burst of glory / Sound becomes a song.
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The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take 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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Maybe I think too much for my own good.
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I’ve got a reason to believe we all be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee.
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Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.
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Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.
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We work our jobs, collect our pay, believe were gliding down the highway, when in fact we’re slip sliding away.
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Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.
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The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.
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The degree of customization possible through your Preferences screens is awesome.
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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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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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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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She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy I said ‘Be careful his bowtie is really a camera’
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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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Sail on silver girl Sail on by Your time has come to shine All your dreams are on their way See how they shine Oh, if you need a friend I’m sailing right behind.
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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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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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It’s actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.
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