I stepped outside to smoke a J and when I came back to the room, everybody just seemed to move.
PAUL SIMONPeople talking without speaking, People listening without hearing, Sounds of Silence.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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Losing love is like a window in your heart.
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Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.
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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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Artie is a singer, and I’m a writer and player and a singer. We didn’t work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.
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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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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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Someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire.
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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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There must be 50 ways to leave your lover.
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There’s something about the sound of a train that’s very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.
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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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Serious numbers will speak to us always.
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Then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right, there must be fifty ways to leave your lover.
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The degree of customization possible through your Preferences screens is awesome.
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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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