People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.
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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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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The course of a lifetime runs/over and over again.
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The more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh.
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In the clearing stands the boxer, and a fighter by his trade. And he carries a reminder of every glove that laid him down, or cut him till he cried out in his anger and his shame “I am leaving! I am leaving” but the fighter still remains.
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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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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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It was easier than explaining DiMaggio’s use as a metaphor.
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Serious numbers will speak to us always.
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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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I stepped outside to smoke a J and when I came back to the room, everybody just seemed to move.
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Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.
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Music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.
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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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I don’t know what I’m going to write when I begin to write. It feels like you are walking down a path, but you can’t see around the bend and you don’t know where you are going to go, which is fun.
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Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.
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