Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard.
PAUL SIMONThe thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.
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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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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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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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Was a sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. Not a negative word was heard.
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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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One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor.
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Maybe I think too much for my own good.
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Artie is a singer, and I’m a writer and player and a singer. We didn’t work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.
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There are two sorts of people in the world: Those who listen and those who are thinking about what they are going to say next.
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How can you live in the Northeast?
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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 words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
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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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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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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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