After all those years of automatic success, you don’t get nervous any more. It’s really necessary to be nervous and be a little bit frightened. It pumps the adrenalin into you and you really get down there and try.
PAUL SIMONBelieving I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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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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I regret the ending of our friendship and hope one day before we die, we’ll make peace with each other . . . No rush.
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You want to be a writer, don’t know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.
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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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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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Breakdowns come, and breakdowns go.
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Music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.
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Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
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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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Somewhere in a burst of glory / Sound becomes a song.
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The degree of customization possible through your Preferences screens is awesome.
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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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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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The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.
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Was a sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. Not a negative word was heard.
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