Sail on silver girl Sail on by Your time has come to shine All your dreams are on their way See how they shine Oh, if you need a friend I’m sailing right behind.
PAUL SIMONSo I’ll continue to continue to pretend my life will never end, and flowers never bend with the rainfall.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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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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When I first heard Elvis perform “Bridge Over Trouble Water” it was unbelivable,and I thought to myself, how the hell can I compete with that?
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When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it’s a wonder I can think at all.
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Time, time, time, see what’s become of me, While I looked around, For my possibilities; I was so hard to please
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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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Then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right, there must be fifty ways to leave your lover.
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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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We’ve survived by believing our life is going to get better.
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If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you’ve created a special little thing, and that’s what I’m looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.
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I’m always going forward toward something, and that something is usually an album, because I like to record. I probably like to record more than I like to write.
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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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I have my books and my poetry to protect me.
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The more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh.
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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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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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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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I’ve got nothing to do today but smile.
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There is a moment, a chip in time, when leaving home is the lesser crime.
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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 stepped outside to smoke a J and when I came back to the room, everybody just seemed to move.
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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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Somewhere in a burst of glory / Sound becomes a song.
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I met my old lover on the street last night, she seemed glad to see me.
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Serious numbers will speak to us always.
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A songwriter’s supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time.
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