Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.
PAUL SIMONFar above the golden clouds, the darkness vibrates. The earth is blue. And everything about it is a love song. Everything about it.
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I met my old lover on the street last night, she seemed glad to see me.
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I don’t know what I’m going to write when I begin to write. It feels like you are walking down a path, but you can’t see around the bend and you don’t know where you are going to go, which is fun.
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And she said ‘Losing love is like a window in your heart, Everybody sees you’re blown apart, Everybody feels the wind blow.’
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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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And I must be what I must be and face tomorrow.
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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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I have my books and my poetry to protect me.
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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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I don’t consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I’m growing.
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Losing love is like a window in your heart.
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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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Nor is it strange That after changes upon changes, we are more or less the same.
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Time, time, time, see what’s become of me, While I looked around, For my possibilities; I was so hard to please
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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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Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.
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The phrasing didn’t work as well.
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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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Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.
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Maybe the heart is part of the mist. And that’s all that there is or could ever exist. Maybe and maybe and maybe some more. Maybe’s the exit that I’m looking for.
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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 don’t feel any pressure from fans. But I’m always in some kind of state of emotional turmoil. I would not describe myself as happy-go-lucky. That’s not to say that I’m not happy.
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I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don’t get sentimental. I think we’re all afraid to reveal our hearts. It’s not at all in fashion.
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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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The course of a lifetime runs/over and over again.
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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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There’s something about the sound of a train that’s very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.
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