People talking without speaking, People listening without hearing, Sounds of Silence.
PAUL SIMONWhen I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.
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Maybe I think too much for my own good.
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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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I stepped outside to smoke a J and when I came back to the room, everybody just seemed to move.
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Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.
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I feel I should try to reveal. When you hit it right, you produce an emotional response in the listener that can be cathartic. When you’re wrong, you’re soppy, sentimental.
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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 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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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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There’s something about the sound of a train that’s very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.
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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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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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Who am I to blow against the wind?
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I’ve got nothing to do today but smile.
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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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By the time I was 12 or 13, I felt that I was special, because I could play the guitar and write songs.
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When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.
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Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
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The trick is, as I know it, is to care like hell and not give a damn at the same time.
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It’s very helpful to start with something that’s true. If you start with something that’s false, you’re always covering your tracks. Something simple and true, that has a lot of possibilities, is a nice way to begin.
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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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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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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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My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It’s the only thing I find interesting.
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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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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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Somewhere in a burst of glory / Sound becomes a song.
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