And so you see I have come to doubt -All that I once held as true ~ I stand alone without beliefs -The only truth I know is you
PAUL SIMONCecilia was made in a living room on a Sony. It was like a little piece of magical fluff, bur it works. El Condor Pasa a Los Incas record that I love. Bridge is a very strong melodic song.
More Paul Simon Quotes
-
-
The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
PAUL SIMON -
Was a sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. Not a negative word was heard.
PAUL SIMON -
We work our jobs, collect our pay, believe were gliding down the highway, when in fact we’re slip sliding away.
PAUL SIMON -
There is a moment, a chip in time, when leaving home is the lesser crime.
PAUL SIMON -
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.
PAUL SIMON -
Time it was And what a time it was, it was A time of innocence A time of confidences Long ago it must be I have a photograph Preserve your memories They’re all that’s left you.
PAUL SIMON -
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 SIMON -
I like them all. They’re all pictures of me when I wrote them. I have no favorite songs.
PAUL SIMON -
Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.
PAUL SIMON -
And she said ‘Losing love is like a window in your heart, Everybody sees you’re blown apart, Everybody feels the wind blow.’
PAUL SIMON -
I stepped outside to smoke a J and when I came back to the room, everybody just seemed to move.
PAUL SIMON -
By the time I was 12 or 13, I felt that I was special, because I could play the guitar and write songs.
PAUL SIMON -
The more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh.
PAUL SIMON -
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 SIMON -
Maybe I think too much for my own good.
PAUL SIMON