Time, time, time, see what’s become of me, While I looked around, For my possibilities; I was so hard to please
PAUL SIMONSomeone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire.
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All God requires from us is to enjoy life and love. That’s the whole point.
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You know, life is what you make of it- so beautiful or so what.
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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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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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How can you live in the Northeast?
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There’s something about the sound of a train that’s very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.
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It’s actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.
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I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It’s chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.
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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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All I’ve got to do today is smile.
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I don’t consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I’m growing.
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The phrasing didn’t work as well.
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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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I’ve got nothing to do today but smile.
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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 met my old lover on the street last night, she seemed glad to see me.
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We had many more points of agreement than we had points of difference, but we did differ, and the bigger we got, the more insistent we got that each one of us should have his way.
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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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Cecilia was made in a living room on a Sony. It was like a little piece of magical fluff, bur it works. El Condor Pasa a Los Incas record that I love. Bridge is a very strong melodic song.
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I’ve got a reason to believe we all be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee.
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Someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire.
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The more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh.
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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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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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Was a sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. Not a negative word was heard.
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The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.
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