There are two sorts of people in the world: Those who listen and those who are thinking about what they are going to say next.
PAUL SIMONI’ve got nothing to do today but smile.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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There must be 50 ways to leave your lover.
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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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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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Losing love is like a window in your heart.
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I regret the ending of our friendship and hope one day before we die, we’ll make peace with each other . . . No rush.
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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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I’m laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone, Going home, where the new york city winters aren’t bleedin’ me.
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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 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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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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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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Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.
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It was easier than explaining DiMaggio’s use as a metaphor.
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Sail on silver girl Sail on by Your time has come to shine All your dreams are on their way See how they shine Oh, if you need a friend I’m sailing right behind.
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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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It was the year of the Beatles, it was the year of the Stones, it was 1964.
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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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I stepped outside to smoke a J and when I came back to the room, everybody just seemed to move.
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I have my books and my poetry to protect me.
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Somewhere in a burst of glory / Sound becomes a song.
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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 feel I should try to reveal. When you hit it right, you produce an emotional response in the listener that can be cathartic. When you’re wrong, you’re soppy, sentimental.
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In the clearing stands the boxer, and a fighter by his trade. And he carries a reminder of every glove that laid him down, or cut him till he cried out in his anger and his shame “I am leaving! I am leaving” but the fighter still remains.
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These are the days of miracle and wonder.
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Life I love you, all is groovy.
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