I’m always going forward toward something, and that something is usually an album, because I like to record. I probably like to record more than I like to write.
PAUL SIMONWe’ve survived by believing our life is going to get better.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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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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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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We’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.
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I met my old lover on the street last night, she seemed glad to see me.
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Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.
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Who am I to blow against the wind?
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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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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.
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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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Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?
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Far above the golden clouds, the darkness vibrates. The earth is blue. And everything about it is a love song. Everything about it.
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It’s very helpful to start with something that’s true. If you start with something that’s false, you’re always covering your tracks. Something simple and true, that has a lot of possibilities, is a nice way to begin.
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If you’ll be my body guard, I can be your long lost pal.
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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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She said a good day ain’t got no rain She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed And I think of things that might have been.
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Someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire.
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Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.
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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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We work our jobs, collect our pay, believe were gliding down the highway, when in fact we’re slip sliding away.
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And I must be what I must be and face tomorrow.
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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 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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The phrasing didn’t work as well.
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One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor.
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I’ve got a reason to believe we all be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee.
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How can you live in the Northeast?
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