I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.
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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These are the days of miracle and wonder.
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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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How much can you do with two voices? You can sing thirds or you can sing fifths or you can do a background harmony.
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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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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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The course of a lifetime runs/over and over again.
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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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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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Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.
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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 trick is, as I know it, is to care like hell and not give a damn at the same time.
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Was a sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. Not a negative word was heard.
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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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Then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right, there must be fifty ways to leave your lover.
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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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