It was the year of the Beatles, it was the year of the Stones, it was 1964.
PAUL SIMONWhen I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it’s a wonder I can think at all.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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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’m always going forward toward something, and that something is usually an album, because I like to record. I probably like to record more than I like to write.
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Music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.
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I’ve got nothing to do today but smile.
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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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I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I’m through.
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How can you live in the Northeast?
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I’m laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone, Going home, where the new york city winters aren’t bleedin’ me.
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The course of a lifetime runs/over and over again.
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It’s very helpful to start with something that’s true. If you start with something that’s false, you’re always covering your tracks. Something simple and true, that has a lot of possibilities, is a nice way to begin.
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I have my books and my poetry to protect me.
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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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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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We’ve survived by believing our life is going to get better.
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Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
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