We work our jobs, collect our pay, believe were gliding down the highway, when in fact we’re slip sliding away.
PAUL SIMONWhen I first heard Elvis perform “Bridge Over Trouble Water” it was unbelivable,and I thought to myself, how the hell can I compete with that?
More Paul Simon Quotes
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Losing love is like a window in your heart.
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I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don’t get sentimental. I think we’re all afraid to reveal our hearts. It’s not at all in fashion.
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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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Far above the golden clouds, the darkness vibrates. The earth is blue. And everything about it is a love song. Everything about it.
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I’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.
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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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It was the year of the Beatles, it was the year of the Stones, it was 1964.
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I don’t feel any pressure from fans. But I’m always in some kind of state of emotional turmoil. I would not describe myself as happy-go-lucky. That’s not to say that I’m not happy.
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Somewhere in a burst of glory / Sound becomes a song.
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You know, life is what you make of it- so beautiful or so what.
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Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?
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We’ve survived by believing our life is going to get better.
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Given all the facts that I’m young and I’m in good health and I’m famous – that I have talent, I have money – given all these facts, I want to know why I’m so unhappy.
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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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I’m laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone, Going home, where the new york city winters aren’t bleedin’ me.
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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.
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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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I’ve got a reason to believe we all be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee.
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Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.
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Maybe I think too much for my own good.
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People talking without speaking, People listening without hearing, Sounds of Silence.
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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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The phrasing didn’t work as well.
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These are the days of miracle and wonder.
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There is a moment, a chip in time, when leaving home is the lesser crime.
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Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.
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