Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
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 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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I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won’t do is change the essence of my work.
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Music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.
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I regret the ending of our friendship and hope one day before we die, we’ll make peace with each other . . . No rush.
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Was a sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. Not a negative word was heard.
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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 often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.
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How much can you do with two voices? You can sing thirds or you can sing fifths or you can do a background harmony.
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In the clearing stands the boxer, and a fighter by his trade. And he carries a reminder of every glove that laid him down, or cut him till he cried out in his anger and his shame “I am leaving! I am leaving” but the fighter still remains.
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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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Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.
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So I’ll continue to continue to pretend my life will never end, and flowers never bend with the rainfall.
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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 lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
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One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor.
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The trick is, as I know it, is to care like hell and not give a damn at the same time.
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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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Sail on silver girl Sail on by Your time has come to shine All your dreams are on their way See how they shine Oh, if you need a friend I’m sailing right behind.
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The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
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She 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.
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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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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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It was easier than explaining DiMaggio’s use as a metaphor.
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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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Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.
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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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