Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.
PAUL SIMON
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My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It’s the only thing I find interesting.
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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 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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I have my books and my poetry to protect me.
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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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People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.
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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.
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The trick is, as I know it, is to care like hell and not give a damn at the same time.
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A lot of talent is a gift, but a lot is also luck. I’m very aware of that. I was born in the right place at the right time. I am also blessed because I’ve never been a sex symbol. I’m spared the embarrassment of acting young.
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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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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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Someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire.
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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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One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor.
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Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.
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