It was the year of the Beatles, it was the year of the Stones, it was 1964.
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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Take two bodies and you twirl them into one, their hearts and their bones, and they won’t come undone.
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Life I love you, all is groovy.
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I met my old lover on the street last night, she seemed glad to see me.
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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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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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I regret the ending of our friendship and hope one day before we die, we’ll make peace with each other . . . No rush.
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There is a moment, a chip in time, when leaving home is the lesser crime.
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I have my books and my poetry to protect me.
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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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The course of a lifetime runs/over and over again.
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Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do.
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Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.
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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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I stepped outside to smoke a J and when I came back to the room, everybody just seemed to move.
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These are the days of miracle and wonder.
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