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 SIMONThe words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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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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The phrasing didn’t work as well.
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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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When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it’s a wonder I can think at all.
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Who am I to blow against the wind?
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And so you see I have come to doubt -All that I once held as true ~ I stand alone without beliefs -The only truth I know is you
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I’ve got a reason to believe we all be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee.
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I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won’t do is change the essence of my work.
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Was a sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. Not a negative word was heard.
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And she said ‘Losing love is like a window in your heart, Everybody sees you’re blown apart, Everybody feels the wind blow.’
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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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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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Just slip out the back, Jack, make a new plan, Stan, you don’t need to be coy, Roy, just get yourself free. Hop on the bus, Gus, you don’t need to discuss much, just drop off the key, Lee, and get yourself free.
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Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.
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Maybe I think too much for my own good.
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