These are the days of miracle and wonder.
PAUL SIMONI 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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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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It was the year of the Beatles, it was the year of the Stones, it was 1964.
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You want to be a writer, don’t know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.
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There is a moment, a chip in time, when leaving home is the lesser crime.
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No one dare disturb the sound of silence.
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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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The more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh.
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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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So I’ll continue to continue to pretend my life will never end, and flowers never bend with the rainfall.
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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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How much can you do with two voices? You can sing thirds or you can sing fifths or you can do a background harmony.
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I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I’m through.
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Music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.
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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.
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Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.
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