Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.
PAUL SIMONWe work our jobs, collect our pay, believe were gliding down the highway, when in fact we’re slip sliding away.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.
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It was the year of the Beatles, it was the year of the Stones, it was 1964.
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A lot of talent is a gift, but a lot is also luck. I’m very aware of that. I was born in the right place at the right time. I am also blessed because I’ve never been a sex symbol. I’m spared the embarrassment of acting young.
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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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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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If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you’ve created a special little thing, and that’s what I’m looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.
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Someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire.
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Who am I to blow against the wind?
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No one dare disturb the sound of silence.
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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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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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How can you live in the Northeast?
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Was a sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. Not a negative word was heard.
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Far above the golden clouds, the darkness vibrates. The earth is blue. And everything about it is a love song. Everything about it.
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