By the time I was 12 or 13, I felt that I was special, because I could play the guitar and write songs.
PAUL SIMONPeople ask how I feel about getting old. I tell them I have the same question. I’m learning as I go.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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Breakdowns come, and breakdowns go.
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All I’ve got to do today is smile.
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Maybe the heart is part of the mist. And that’s all that there is or could ever exist. Maybe and maybe and maybe some more. Maybe’s the exit that I’m looking for.
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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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Then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right, there must be fifty ways to leave your lover.
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When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it’s a wonder I can think at all.
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You know, life is what you make of it- so beautiful or so what.
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It’s actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.
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The degree of customization possible through your Preferences screens is awesome.
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Music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.
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You want to be a writer, don’t know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.
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Somewhere in a burst of glory / Sound becomes a song.
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It was easier than explaining DiMaggio’s use as a metaphor.
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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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I met my old lover on the street last night, she seemed glad to see me.
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Losing love is like a window in your heart.
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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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Anthony Heilbut has been a guide and a mentor to me. I know of no one who has the love and depth of knowledge of this extraordinary author.
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Serious numbers will speak to us always.
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Nor is it strange That after changes upon changes, we are more or less the same.
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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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Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.
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The more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh.
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Someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire.
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We’ve survived by believing our life is going to get better.
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People 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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