When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it’s a wonder I can think at all.
PAUL SIMONI 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.
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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These are the days of miracle and wonder.
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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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Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.
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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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There is a moment, a chip in time, when leaving home is the lesser crime.
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The abstract music is just more interesting because it doesn’t really have anything to say, but if it is good, it creates thoughts and feelings, and I enjoy that. For me, once the music creates those thoughts and feelings, I begin to write a song about it.
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The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.
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Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard.
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And I must be what I must be and face tomorrow.
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Breakdowns come, and breakdowns go.
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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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There’s something about the sound of a train that’s very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.
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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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My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It’s the only thing I find interesting.
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