People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.
PAUL SIMONBelieving I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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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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All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
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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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Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard.
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No one dare disturb the sound of silence.
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People talking without speaking, People listening without hearing, Sounds of Silence.
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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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The dialogue between what’s going on in the world and what’s going on internally seems to be a natural thing – well, it’s natural to me, anyway, to have these thoughts.
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Given all the facts that I’m young and I’m in good health and I’m famous – that I have talent, I have money – given all these facts, I want to know why I’m so unhappy.
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I’m always going forward toward something, and that something is usually an album, because I like to record. I probably like to record more than I like to write.
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Losing love is like a window in your heart.
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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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You know, life is what you make of it- so beautiful or so what.
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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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Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.
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