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Paul Simon

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.
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Abstract Beginning Creation Interesting Music Song Writing
I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I’m through.
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Angry Heart Jealous Myself Soul
And I must be what I must be and face tomorrow.
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Brave Face Myself
The course of a lifetime runs/over and over again.
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Course Life Run Time
I met my old lover on the street last night, she seemed glad to see me.
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Happiness Lover Myself Old See Street
All I’ve got to do today is smile.
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One Liner Smile
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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Creation Humor Lose Serious Time Yourself
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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Artistic Change Finding Interesting Life Myself
Someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire.
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Fire Life Room Walk
I’ve got nothing to do today but smile.
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Day Myself Self Love Smile
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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Escape Influence Powerful Thinking
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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Emotional Feeling Listening Myself Reveal Right Sentimental
All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
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Himself Lying Man Regard
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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Silence Sound Word Writing
I have my books and my poetry to protect me.
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Book Myself Poetry Protection
It was the year of the Beatles, it was the year of the Stones, it was 1964.
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