The abstract music is just more interesting because it doesn’t really have anything to say, but if it is good, it creates thoughts and feelings, and I enjoy that. For me, once the music creates those thoughts and feelings, I begin to write a song about it.
PAUL SIMONIt was easier than explaining DiMaggio’s use as a metaphor.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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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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And I must be what I must be and face tomorrow.
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The course of a lifetime runs/over and over again.
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I met my old lover on the street last night, she seemed glad to see me.
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All I’ve got to do today is smile.
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If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you’ve created a special little thing, and that’s what I’m looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.
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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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Someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire.
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I’ve got nothing to do today but smile.
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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 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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All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
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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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I have my books and my poetry to protect me.
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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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