I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I’m through.
PAUL SIMONTake two bodies and you twirl them into one, their hearts and their bones, and they won’t come undone.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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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’ve got nothing to do today but smile.
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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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No one dare disturb the sound of silence.
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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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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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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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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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Cecilia was made in a living room on a Sony. It was like a little piece of magical fluff, bur it works. El Condor Pasa a Los Incas record that I love. Bridge is a very strong melodic song.
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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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There’s something about the sound of a train that’s very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.
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One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor.
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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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The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.
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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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