Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard.
PAUL SIMONThere are two sorts of people in the world: Those who listen and those who are thinking about what they are going to say next.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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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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I don’t think [Dylan and the Beatles] influenced me a lot. I think it was inevitable; they were so powerful that you couldn’t really escape the influence.
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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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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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Take two bodies and you twirl them into one, their hearts and their bones, and they won’t come undone.
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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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One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor.
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I don’t know what I’m going to write when I begin to write. It feels like you are walking down a path, but you can’t see around the bend and you don’t know where you are going to go, which is fun.
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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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I’ve got a reason to believe we all be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee.
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In the clearing stands the boxer, and a fighter by his trade. And he carries a reminder of every glove that laid him down, or cut him till he cried out in his anger and his shame “I am leaving! I am leaving” but the fighter still remains.
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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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I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I’m through.
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Losing love is like a window in your heart.
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I met my old lover on the street last night, she seemed glad to see me.
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