The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
PAUL SIMONI’m always going forward toward something, and that something is usually an album, because I like to record. I probably like to record more than I like to write.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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Cecilia was made in a living room on a Sony. It was like a little piece of magical fluff, bur it works. El Condor Pasa a Los Incas record that I love. Bridge is a very strong melodic song.
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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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One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor.
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I feel I should try to reveal. When you hit it right, you produce an emotional response in the listener that can be cathartic. When you’re wrong, you’re soppy, sentimental.
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The more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh.
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Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
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I met my old lover on the street last night. She seemed so glad to see me, I just smiled. Then we talked about some old times and we drank ourselves some beers, still crazy after all these years.
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Maybe I think too much for my own good.
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Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard.
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I don’t consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I’m growing.
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Anthony Heilbut has been a guide and a mentor to me. I know of no one who has the love and depth of knowledge of this extraordinary author.
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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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Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.
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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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Time, time, time, see what’s become of me, While I looked around, For my possibilities; I was so hard to please
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