It was the year of the Beatles, it was the year of the Stones, it was 1964.
PAUL SIMONThere must be 50 ways to leave your lover.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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I’ve got nothing to do today but smile.
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I like them all. They’re all pictures of me when I wrote them. I have no favorite songs.
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People ask how I feel about getting old. I tell them I have the same question. I’m learning as I go.
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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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People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.
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People talking without speaking, People listening without hearing, Sounds of Silence.
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Music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.
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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 met my old lover on the street last night, she seemed glad to see me.
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When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.
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I don’t very often think I’ve done a good job. I don’t like the majority of what I do. I shouldn’t say I don’t like it, but I’m not satisfied with almost everything that I do.
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The more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh.
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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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So I’ll continue to continue to pretend my life will never end, and flowers never bend with the rainfall.
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We’re living in a certain time, and we’re aware of it. And that’s part of what we’re aware of, along with our own personal aches and pains.
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