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.
PAUL SIMONNor is it strange That after changes upon changes, we are more or less the same.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.
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When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it’s a wonder I can think at all.
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By the time I was 12 or 13, I felt that I was special, because I could play the guitar and write songs.
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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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One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor.
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Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.
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Who am I to blow against the wind?
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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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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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Music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.
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We’ve survived by believing our life is going to get better.
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Cecilia was made in a living room on a Sony. It was like a little piece of magical fluff, bur it works. El Condor Pasa a Los Incas record that I love. Bridge is a very strong melodic song.
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I’ve got a reason to believe we all be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee.
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If you’ll be my body guard, I can be your long lost pal.
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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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