After all those years of automatic success, you don’t get nervous any more. It’s really necessary to be nervous and be a little bit frightened. It pumps the adrenalin into you and you really get down there and try.
PAUL SIMONTime it was And what a time it was, it was A time of innocence A time of confidences Long ago it must be I have a photograph Preserve your memories They’re all that’s left you.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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All God requires from us is to enjoy life and love. That’s the whole point.
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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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So I’ll continue to continue to pretend my life will never end, and flowers never bend with the rainfall.
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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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The course of a lifetime runs/over and over again.
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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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The degree of customization possible through your Preferences screens is awesome.
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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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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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Losing love is like a window in your heart.
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There’s something about the sound of a train that’s very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.
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Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.
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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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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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I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don’t get sentimental. I think we’re all afraid to reveal our hearts. It’s not at all in fashion.
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