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 SIMONI 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.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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A songwriter’s supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time.
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When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.
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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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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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When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it’s a wonder I can think at all.
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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.
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The phrasing didn’t work as well.
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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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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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You know, life is what you make of it- so beautiful or so what.
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No one dare disturb the sound of silence.
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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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One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor.
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All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
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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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