When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.
PAUL SIMON
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.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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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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There must be 50 ways to leave your lover.
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There are two sorts of people in the world: Those who listen and those who are thinking about what they are going to say next.
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The degree of customization possible through your Preferences screens is awesome.
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Take me. I’m an ordinary player in the key of C. And my will was broken by my pride and my vanity. Who’s gonna love you when you’re looks are gone? God will. Like he waters the flowers on your window sill.
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Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.
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It was easier than explaining DiMaggio’s use as a metaphor.
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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.
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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 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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It was the year of the Beatles, it was the year of the Stones, it was 1964.
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If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you’ve created a special little thing, and that’s what I’m looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.
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People talking without speaking, People listening without hearing, Sounds of Silence.
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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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The phrasing didn’t work as well.
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I have my books and my poetry to protect me.
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