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.
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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If you’ll be my body guard, I can be your long lost pal.
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After all those years of automatic success, you don’t get nervous any more. It’s really necessary to be nervous and be a little bit frightened. It pumps the adrenalin into you and you really get down there and try.
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You want to be a writer, don’t know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.
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Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do.
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I don’t very often think I’ve done a good job. I don’t like the majority of what I do. I shouldn’t say I don’t like it, but I’m not satisfied with almost everything that I do.
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I stepped outside to smoke a J and when I came back to the room, everybody just seemed to move.
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Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard.
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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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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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The abstract music is just more interesting because it doesn’t really have anything to say, but if it is good, it creates thoughts and feelings, and I enjoy that. For me, once the music creates those thoughts and feelings, I begin to write a song about it.
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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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It’s actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.
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Anthony Heilbut has been a guide and a mentor to me. I know of no one who has the love and depth of knowledge of this extraordinary author.
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I’ve got nothing to do today but smile.
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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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