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 SIMONThese are the days of miracle and wonder.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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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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Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.
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We had many more points of agreement than we had points of difference, but we did differ, and the bigger we got, the more insistent we got that each one of us should have his way.
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Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.
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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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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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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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Music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.
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Losing love is like a window in your heart.
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I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It’s chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.
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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 ask how I feel about getting old. I tell them I have the same question. I’m learning as I go.
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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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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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Maybe the heart is part of the mist. And that’s all that there is or could ever exist. Maybe and maybe and maybe some more. Maybe’s the exit that I’m looking for.
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We’ve survived by believing our life is going to get better.
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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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I regret the ending of our friendship and hope one day before we die, we’ll make peace with each other . . . No rush.
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Take me. I’m an ordinary player in the key of C. And my will was broken by my pride and my vanity. Who’s gonna love you when you’re looks are gone? God will. Like he waters the flowers on your window sill.
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Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
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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
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A songwriter’s supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time.
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How can you live in the Northeast?
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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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I’ve got nothing to do today but smile.
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Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.
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