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 SIMONI’m laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone, Going home, where the new york city winters aren’t bleedin’ me.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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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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The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.
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Life I love you, all is groovy.
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All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
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And I must be what I must be and face tomorrow.
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How can you live in the Northeast?
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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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Who am I to blow against the wind?
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Was a sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. Not a negative word was heard.
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The degree of customization possible through your Preferences screens is awesome.
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There are two sorts of people in the world: Those who listen and those who are thinking about what they are going to say next.
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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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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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Take me. I’m an ordinary player in the key of C. And my will was broken by my pride and my vanity. Who’s gonna love you when you’re looks are gone? God will. Like he waters the flowers on your window sill.
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Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
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