Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.
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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Somewhere in a burst of glory / Sound becomes a song.
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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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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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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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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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So I’ll continue to continue to pretend my life will never end, and flowers never bend with the rainfall.
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We had many more points of agreement than we had points of difference, but we did differ, and the bigger we got, the more insistent we got that each one of us should have his way.
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The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.
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Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.
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I 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.
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The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.
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Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.
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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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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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All God requires from us is to enjoy life and love. That’s the whole point.
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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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Time it was And what a time it was, it was A time of innocence A time of confidences Long ago it must be I have a photograph Preserve your memories They’re all that’s left you.
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Who am I to blow against the wind?
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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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Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard.
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Serious numbers will speak to us always.
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Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
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These are the days of miracle and wonder.
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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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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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There’s something about the sound of a train that’s very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.
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