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.
PAUL SIMONI don’t know what I’m going to write when I begin to write. It feels like you are walking down a path, but you can’t see around the bend and you don’t know where you are going to go, which is fun.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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We’ve survived by believing our life is going to get better.
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It was easier than explaining DiMaggio’s use as a metaphor.
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The more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh.
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By the time I was 12 or 13, I felt that I was special, because I could play the guitar and write songs.
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You know, life is what you make of it- so beautiful or so what.
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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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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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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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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 want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I’m through.
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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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Serious numbers will speak to us always.
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The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.
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And you read your emily dickinson, And I my robert frost. And we note our place with bookmarkers That measure what we’ve lost.
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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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