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.
PAUL SIMONShe said a good day ain’t got no rain She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed And I think of things that might have been.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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And you read your emily dickinson, And I my robert frost. And we note our place with bookmarkers That measure what we’ve lost.
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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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I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I’m through.
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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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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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There is a moment, a chip in time, when leaving home is the lesser crime.
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I’ve got a reason to believe we all be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee.
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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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Artie is a singer, and I’m a writer and player and a singer. We didn’t work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.
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We’ve survived by believing our life is going to get better.
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Breakdowns come, and breakdowns go.
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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 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 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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Serious numbers will speak to us always.
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