Far above the golden clouds, the darkness vibrates. The earth is blue. And everything about it is a love song. Everything about it.
PAUL SIMONLife I love you, all is groovy.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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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 met my old lover on the street last night. She seemed so glad to see me, I just smiled. Then we talked about some old times and we drank ourselves some beers, still crazy after all these years.
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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 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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Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
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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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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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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 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 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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When I first heard Elvis perform “Bridge Over Trouble Water” it was unbelivable,and I thought to myself, how the hell can I compete with that?
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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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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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Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.
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Maybe I think too much for my own good.
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