The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.
PAUL SIMONThe trick is, as I know it, is to care like hell and not give a damn at the same time.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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Was a sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. Not a negative word was heard.
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How much can you do with two voices? You can sing thirds or you can sing fifths or you can do a background harmony.
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I have my books and my poetry to protect me.
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I don’t think [Dylan and the Beatles] influenced me a lot. I think it was inevitable; they were so powerful that you couldn’t really escape the influence.
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Take me. I’m an ordinary player in the key of C. And my will was broken by my pride and my vanity. Who’s gonna love you when you’re looks are gone? God will. Like he waters the flowers on your window sill.
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These are the days of miracle and wonder.
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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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Take two bodies and you twirl them into one, their hearts and their bones, and they won’t come undone.
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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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We’ve survived by believing our life is going to get better.
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I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It’s chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.
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There is a moment, a chip in time, when leaving home is the lesser crime.
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Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.
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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 words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
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