One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor.
PAUL SIMONHow much can you do with two voices? You can sing thirds or you can sing fifths or you can do a background harmony.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
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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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No one dare disturb the sound of silence.
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The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.
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Maybe I think too much for my own good.
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Take two bodies and you twirl them into one, their hearts and their bones, and they won’t come undone.
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Someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire.
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I don’t very often think I’ve done a good job. I don’t like the majority of what I do. I shouldn’t say I don’t like it, but I’m not satisfied with almost everything that I do.
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I met my old lover on the street last night. She seemed so glad to see me, I just smiled. Then we talked about some old times and we drank ourselves some beers, still crazy after all these years.
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People talking without speaking, People listening without hearing, Sounds of Silence.
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Somewhere in a burst of glory / Sound becomes a song.
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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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And you read your emily dickinson, And I my robert frost. And we note our place with bookmarkers That measure what we’ve lost.
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I don’t think [Dylan and the Beatles] influenced me a lot. I think it was inevitable; they were so powerful that you couldn’t really escape the influence.
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People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.
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