Given all the facts that I’m young and I’m in good health and I’m famous – that I have talent, I have money – given all these facts, I want to know why I’m so unhappy.
PAUL SIMONNo one dare disturb the sound of silence.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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I’ve got nothing to do today but smile.
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The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.
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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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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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I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don’t get sentimental. I think we’re all afraid to reveal our hearts. It’s not at all in fashion.
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Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.
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The phrasing didn’t work as well.
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In the clearing stands the boxer, and a fighter by his trade. And he carries a reminder of every glove that laid him down, or cut him till he cried out in his anger and his shame “I am leaving! I am leaving” but the fighter still remains.
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There is a moment, a chip in time, when leaving home is the lesser crime.
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Take two bodies and you twirl them into one, their hearts and their bones, and they won’t come undone.
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My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It’s the only thing I find interesting.
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I like them all. They’re all pictures of me when I wrote them. I have no favorite songs.
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Someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire.
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Sail on silver girl Sail on by Your time has come to shine All your dreams are on their way See how they shine Oh, if you need a friend I’m sailing right behind.
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And she said ‘Losing love is like a window in your heart, Everybody sees you’re blown apart, Everybody feels the wind blow.’
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