The abstract music is just more interesting because it doesn’t really have anything to say, but if it is good, it creates thoughts and feelings, and I enjoy that. For me, once the music creates those thoughts and feelings, I begin to write a song about it.
PAUL SIMONWe’re living in a certain time, and we’re aware of it. And that’s part of what we’re aware of, along with our own personal aches and pains.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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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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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 stepped outside to smoke a J and when I came back to the room, everybody just seemed to move.
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You know, life is what you make of it- so beautiful or so what.
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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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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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Cecilia was made in a living room on a Sony. It was like a little piece of magical fluff, bur it works. El Condor Pasa a Los Incas record that I love. Bridge is a very strong melodic song.
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Life I love you, all is groovy.
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Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard.
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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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Losing love is like a window in your heart.
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How can you live in the Northeast?
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There must be 50 ways to leave your lover.
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Someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire.
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No one dare disturb the sound of silence.
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