No one dare disturb the sound of silence.
PAUL SIMONJust 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.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.
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I’ve got nothing to do today but smile.
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Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?
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There is a moment, a chip in time, when leaving home is the lesser crime.
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And I must be what I must be and face tomorrow.
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I’m laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone, Going home, where the new york city winters aren’t bleedin’ me.
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There are two sorts of people in the world: Those who listen and those who are thinking about what they are going to say next.
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Life I love you, all is groovy.
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Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
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Maybe the heart is part of the mist. And that’s all that there is or could ever exist. Maybe and maybe and maybe some more. Maybe’s the exit that I’m looking for.
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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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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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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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I stepped outside to smoke a J and when I came back to the room, everybody just seemed to move.
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Take me. I’m an ordinary player in the key of C. And my will was broken by my pride and my vanity. Who’s gonna love you when you’re looks are gone? God will. Like he waters the flowers on your window sill.
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