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I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.

Paul Simon

After all those years of automatic success, you don’t get nervous any more. It’s really necessary to be nervous and be a little bit frightened. It pumps the adrenalin into you and you really get down there and try.
PAUL SIMON

Automatic Necessary Nervous Scare Try Yourself
Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
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Eyes Lonely Nation Yourself
Breakdowns come, and breakdowns go.
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Breakdown Heart Broken
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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Goodness Majority Myself Satisfaction Thinking
Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard.
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End Grave Result
I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won’t do is change the essence of my work.
PAUL SIMON

Art Essence Happiness Myself Willing Work
Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?
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Hard Time Life Myself Soft
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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Act Aware Embarrassment Gift Luck Symbol Talent Time Young
Who am I to blow against the wind?
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Blow Myself Wind
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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Agreement Difference Oneself Point Way
Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.
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Mystery Simplicity
Somewhere in a burst of glory / Sound becomes a song.
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Burst Glory Song Sound
All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
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Himself Lying Man Regard
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.
PAUL SIMON

Beginning Known See Writing Yourself
A songwriter’s supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time.
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Challenge Simplicity Supreme Time
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.
PAUL SIMON

Eat Food Inspiration Myself

I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.

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