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 SIMONI stepped outside to smoke a J and when I came back to the room, everybody just seemed to move.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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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.
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The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.
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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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It was the year of the Beatles, it was the year of the Stones, it was 1964.
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I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I’m through.
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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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She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy I said ‘Be careful his bowtie is really a camera’
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I have my books and my poetry to protect me.
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You know, life is what you make of it- so beautiful or so what.
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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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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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Serious numbers will speak to us always.
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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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She said a good day ain’t got no rain She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed And I think of things that might have been.
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There must be 50 ways to leave your lover.
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