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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There’s something about the sound of a train that’s very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.
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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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Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.
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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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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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I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I’m through.
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Artie is a singer, and I’m a writer and player and a singer. We didn’t work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.
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No one dare disturb the sound of silence.
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Life I love you, all is groovy.
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Serious numbers will speak to us always.
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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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There must be 50 ways to leave your lover.
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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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Was a sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. Not a negative word was heard.
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Somewhere in a burst of glory / Sound becomes a song.
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