By the time I was 12 or 13, I felt that I was special, because I could play the guitar and write songs.
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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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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Breakdowns come, and breakdowns go.
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Then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right, there must be fifty ways to leave your lover.
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Artie is a singer, and I’m a writer and player and a singer. We didn’t work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.
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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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Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.
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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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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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I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.
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A lot of talent is a gift, but a lot is also luck. I’m very aware of that. I was born in the right place at the right time. I am also blessed because I’ve never been a sex symbol. I’m spared the embarrassment of acting young.
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Who am I to blow against the wind?
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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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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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We had many more points of agreement than we had points of difference, but we did differ, and the bigger we got, the more insistent we got that each one of us should have his way.
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The phrasing didn’t work as well.
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Time it was And what a time it was, it was A time of innocence A time of confidences Long ago it must be I have a photograph Preserve your memories They’re all that’s left you.
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Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.
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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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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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The more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh.
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We’re living in a certain time, and we’re aware of it. And that’s part of what we’re aware of, along with our own personal aches and pains.
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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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If you’ll be my body guard, I can be your long lost pal.
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Life I love you, all is groovy.
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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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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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