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.
PAUL SIMONFaith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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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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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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A songwriter’s supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time.
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I’ve got a reason to believe we all be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee.
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People talking without speaking, People listening without hearing, Sounds of Silence.
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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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Someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire.
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Losing love is like a window in your heart.
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Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.
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You know, life is what you make of it- so beautiful or so what.
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The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.
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The phrasing didn’t work as well.
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The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.
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Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.
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She said a good day ain’t got no rain She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed And I think of things that might have been.
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One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor.
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I have my books and my poetry to protect me.
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We work our jobs, collect our pay, believe were gliding down the highway, when in fact we’re slip sliding away.
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The course of a lifetime runs/over and over again.
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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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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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How can you live in the Northeast?
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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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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 want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I’m through.
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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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