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.
PAUL SIMONAnd she said ‘Losing love is like a window in your heart, Everybody sees you’re blown apart, Everybody feels the wind blow.’
More Paul Simon Quotes
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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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All God requires from us is to enjoy life and love. That’s the whole point.
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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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Maybe I think too much for my own good.
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Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.
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Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.
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Just slip out the back, Jack, make a new plan, Stan, you don’t need to be coy, Roy, just get yourself free. Hop on the bus, Gus, you don’t need to discuss much, just drop off the key, Lee, and get yourself free.
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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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Then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right, there must be fifty ways to leave your lover.
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It’s actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.
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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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The more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh.
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And so you see I have come to doubt -All that I once held as true ~ I stand alone without beliefs -The only truth I know is you
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The course of a lifetime runs/over and over again.
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We work our jobs, collect our pay, believe were gliding down the highway, when in fact we’re slip sliding away.
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