By the time I was 12 or 13, I felt that I was special, because I could play the guitar and write songs.
PAUL SIMONThere must be 50 ways to leave your lover.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won’t do is change the essence of my work.
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Far above the golden clouds, the darkness vibrates. The earth is blue. And everything about it is a love song. Everything about it.
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We work our jobs, collect our pay, believe were gliding down the highway, when in fact we’re slip sliding away.
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Time, time, time, see what’s become of me, While I looked around, For my possibilities; I was so hard to please
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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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Take two bodies and you twirl them into one, their hearts and their bones, and they won’t come undone.
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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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People talking without speaking, People listening without hearing, Sounds of Silence.
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The trick is, as I know it, is to care like hell and not give a damn at the same time.
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Breakdowns come, and breakdowns go.
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She said a good day ain’t got no rain She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed And I think of things that might have been.
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How can you live in the Northeast?
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Anthony Heilbut has been a guide and a mentor to me. I know of no one who has the love and depth of knowledge of this extraordinary author.
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Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.
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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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