Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.
PAUL SIMONPeople ask how I feel about getting old. I tell them I have the same question. I’m learning as I go.
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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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Life I love you, all is groovy.
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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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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 like them all. They’re all pictures of me when I wrote them. I have no favorite songs.
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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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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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Serious numbers will speak to us always.
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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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Someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire.
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Somewhere in a burst of glory / Sound becomes a song.
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I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don’t get sentimental. I think we’re all afraid to reveal our hearts. It’s not at all in fashion.
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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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No one dare disturb the sound of silence.
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Losing love is like a window in your heart.
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