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.
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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Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.
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The more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh.
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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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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.
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I don’t consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I’m growing.
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There must be 50 ways to leave your lover.
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I’m always going forward toward something, and that something is usually an album, because I like to record. I probably like to record more than I like to write.
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And you read your emily dickinson, And I my robert frost. And we note our place with bookmarkers That measure what we’ve lost.
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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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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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I stepped outside to smoke a J and when I came back to the room, everybody just seemed to move.
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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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Just slip out the back, Jack, make a new plan, Stan, you don’t need to be coy, Roy, just get yourself free. Hop on the bus, Gus, you don’t need to discuss much, just drop off the key, Lee, and get yourself free.
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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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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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All I’ve got to do today is smile.
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If you’ll be my body guard, I can be your long lost pal.
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Losing love is like a window in your heart.
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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 regret the ending of our friendship and hope one day before we die, we’ll make peace with each other . . . No rush.
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We’ve survived by believing our life is going to get better.
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It’s very helpful to start with something that’s true. If you start with something that’s false, you’re always covering your tracks. Something simple and true, that has a lot of possibilities, is a nice way to begin.
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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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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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Life I love you, all is groovy.
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The phrasing didn’t work as well.
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