The trick is, as I know it, is to care like hell and not give a damn at the same time.
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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Time it was And what a time it was, it was A time of innocence A time of confidences Long ago it must be I have a photograph Preserve your memories They’re all that’s left you.
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Take two bodies and you twirl them into one, their hearts and their bones, and they won’t come undone.
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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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You know, life is what you make of it- so beautiful or so what.
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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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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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The more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh.
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We’re living in a certain time, and we’re aware of it. And that’s part of what we’re aware of, along with our own personal aches and pains.
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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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A songwriter’s supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time.
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Who am I to blow against the wind?
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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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All I’ve got to do today is smile.
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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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Then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right, there must be fifty ways to leave your lover.
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