I stepped outside to smoke a J and when I came back to the room, everybody just seemed to move.
PAUL SIMONHaving 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.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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We work our jobs, collect our pay, believe were gliding down the highway, when in fact we’re slip sliding away.
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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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The phrasing didn’t work as well.
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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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So I’ll continue to continue to pretend my life will never end, and flowers never bend with the rainfall.
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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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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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It was easier than explaining DiMaggio’s use as a metaphor.
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I’ve got a reason to believe we all be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee.
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All God requires from us is to enjoy life and love. That’s the whole point.
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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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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.
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Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?
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All I’ve got to do today is smile.
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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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