A lot of talent is a gift, but a lot is also luck. I’m very aware of that. I was born in the right place at the right time. I am also blessed because I’ve never been a sex symbol. I’m spared the embarrassment of acting young.
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.
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Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
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It was the year of the Beatles, it was the year of the Stones, it was 1964.
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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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Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.
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Life I love you, all is groovy.
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The more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh.
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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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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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Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.
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I don’t feel any pressure from fans. But I’m always in some kind of state of emotional turmoil. I would not describe myself as happy-go-lucky. That’s not to say that I’m not happy.
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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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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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You know, life is what you make of it- so beautiful or so what.
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I have my books and my poetry to protect me.
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Someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire.
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