Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
PAUL SIMONArtie 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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Far above the golden clouds, the darkness vibrates. The earth is blue. And everything about it is a love song. Everything about it.
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By the time I was 12 or 13, I felt that I was special, because I could play the guitar and write songs.
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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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We work our jobs, collect our pay, believe were gliding down the highway, when in fact we’re slip sliding away.
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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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The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.
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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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I don’t very often think I’ve done a good job. I don’t like the majority of what I do. I shouldn’t say I don’t like it, but I’m not satisfied with almost everything that I do.
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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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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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Music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.
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My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It’s the only thing I find interesting.
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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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Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?
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People ask how I feel about getting old. I tell them I have the same question. I’m learning as I go.
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There is a moment, a chip in time, when leaving home is the lesser crime.
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No one dare disturb the sound of silence.
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Losing love is like a window in your heart.
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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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Nor is it strange That after changes upon changes, we are more or less the same.
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If you’ll be my body guard, I can be your long lost pal.
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Someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire.
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Was a sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. Not a negative word was heard.
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Who am I to blow against the wind?
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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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I’ve got a reason to believe we all be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee.
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