It’s actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.
PAUL SIMONIt was the year of the Beatles, it was the year of the Stones, it was 1964.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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And I must be what I must be and face tomorrow.
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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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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.
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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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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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We’re living in a certain time, and we’re aware of it. And that’s part of what we’re aware of, along with our own personal aches and pains.
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People ask how I feel about getting old. I tell them I have the same question. I’m learning as I 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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I regret the ending of our friendship and hope one day before we die, we’ll make peace with each other . . . No rush.
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The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.
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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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Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.
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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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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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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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