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.
PAUL SIMONWho am I to blow against the wind?
More Paul Simon Quotes
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It was easier than explaining DiMaggio’s use as a metaphor.
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The course of a lifetime runs/over and over again.
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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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Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
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No one dare disturb the sound of silence.
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These are the days of miracle and wonder.
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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’s something about the sound of a train that’s very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.
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The more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh.
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Was a sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. Not a negative word was heard.
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I’m laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone, Going home, where the new york city winters aren’t bleedin’ me.
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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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I’ve got a reason to believe we all be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee.
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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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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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We’ve survived by believing our life is going to get better.
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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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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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It’s actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.
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I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don’t get sentimental. I think we’re all afraid to reveal our hearts. It’s not at all in fashion.
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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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It was the year of the Beatles, it was the year of the Stones, it was 1964.
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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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You want to be a writer, don’t know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.
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I have my books and my poetry to protect me.
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I met my old lover on the street last night, she seemed glad to see me.
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