We work our jobs, collect our pay, believe were gliding down the highway, when in fact we’re slip sliding away.
PAUL SIMONMaybe 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.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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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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The dialogue between what’s going on in the world and what’s going on internally seems to be a natural thing – well, it’s natural to me, anyway, to have these thoughts.
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People talking without speaking, People listening without hearing, Sounds of Silence.
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The course of a lifetime runs/over and over again.
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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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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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Breakdowns come, and breakdowns go.
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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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No one dare disturb the sound of silence.
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Just slip out the back, Jack, make a new plan, Stan, you don’t need to be coy, Roy, just get yourself free. Hop on the bus, Gus, you don’t need to discuss much, just drop off the key, Lee, and get yourself free.
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Time, time, time, see what’s become of me, While I looked around, For my possibilities; I was so hard to please
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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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Music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.
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The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
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Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.
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