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.
PAUL SIMONHow can you live in the Northeast?
More Paul Simon Quotes
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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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Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.
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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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Just slip out the back, Jack, make a new plan, Stan, you don’t need to be coy, Roy, just get yourself free. Hop on the bus, Gus, you don’t need to discuss much, just drop off the key, Lee, and get yourself free.
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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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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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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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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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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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Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?
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You know, life is what you make of it- so beautiful or so what.
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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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I have my books and my poetry to protect me.
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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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And I must be what I must be and face tomorrow.
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