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 SIMONThe record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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Somewhere in a burst of glory / Sound becomes a song.
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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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Maybe I think too much for my own good.
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I’ve got nothing to do today but smile.
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And she said ‘Losing love is like a window in your heart, Everybody sees you’re blown apart, Everybody feels the wind blow.’
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It’s actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.
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Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.
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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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Breakdowns come, and breakdowns go.
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I feel I should try to reveal. When you hit it right, you produce an emotional response in the listener that can be cathartic. When you’re wrong, you’re soppy, sentimental.
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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 regret the ending of our friendship and hope one day before we die, we’ll make peace with each other . . . No rush.
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Nor is it strange That after changes upon changes, we are more or less the same.
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I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don’t get sentimental. I think we’re all afraid to reveal our hearts. It’s not at all in fashion.
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I met my old lover on the street last night, she seemed glad to see me.
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