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.
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Sail on silver girl Sail on by Your time has come to shine All your dreams are on their way See how they shine Oh, if you need a friend I’m sailing right behind.
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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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She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy I said ‘Be careful his bowtie is really a camera’
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Music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.
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Breakdowns come, and breakdowns go.
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I’m laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone, Going home, where the new york city winters aren’t bleedin’ me.
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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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The degree of customization possible through your Preferences screens is awesome.
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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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Then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right, there must be fifty ways to leave your lover.
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Time 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.
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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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It was the year of the Beatles, it was the year of the Stones, it was 1964.
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Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.
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The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
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