We work our jobs, collect our pay, believe were gliding down the highway, when in fact we’re slip sliding away.
PAUL SIMONIt was easier than explaining DiMaggio’s use as a metaphor.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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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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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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These are the days of miracle and wonder.
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I’ve got nothing to do today but smile.
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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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I don’t feel any pressure from fans. But I’m always in some kind of state of emotional turmoil. I would not describe myself as happy-go-lucky. That’s not to say that I’m not happy.
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Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do.
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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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Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
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You know, life is what you make of it- so beautiful or so what.
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We’ve survived by believing our life is going to get better.
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Life I love you, all is groovy.
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I have my books and my poetry to protect me.
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When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it’s a wonder I can think at all.
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I stepped outside to smoke a J and when I came back to the room, everybody just seemed to move.
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