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Music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.

Paul Simon

If you’ll be my body guard, I can be your long lost pal.
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Body Friendship Guard Myself
There’s something about the sound of a train that’s very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.
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Hope Nostalgia Romantic Sound Training
The phrasing didn’t work as well.
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Phrase Well Work
Breakdowns come, and breakdowns go.
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Breakdown Heart Broken
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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Silence Sound Word Writing
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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Art Essence Happiness Myself Willing Work
You want to be a writer, don’t know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.
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Humble Known Pen Place Quiet Writing Yourself
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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Expectation History Live People Record Success Yourself
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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Feeling Guitar Play Song Time Writing
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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Camera Care Man Myself
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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Impossible Music Myself Song
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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Abstract Beginning Creation Interesting Music Song Writing
How can you live in the Northeast?
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Live Place
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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Betrayal Music Myself Record
One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor.
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Floor Man Oneself
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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