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.
PAUL SIMONMy whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It’s the only thing I find interesting.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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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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If you’ll be my body guard, I can be your long lost pal.
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Somewhere in a burst of glory / Sound becomes a song.
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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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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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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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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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Then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right, there must be fifty ways to leave your lover.
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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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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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So I’ll continue to continue to pretend my life will never end, and flowers never bend with the rainfall.
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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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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 like them all. They’re all pictures of me when I wrote them. I have no favorite songs.
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Take two bodies and you twirl them into one, their hearts and their bones, and they won’t come undone.
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Maybe I think too much for my own good.
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The phrasing didn’t work as well.
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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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You want to be a writer, don’t know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.
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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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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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Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard.
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No one dare disturb the sound of silence.
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When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it’s a wonder I can think at all.
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I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I’m through.
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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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