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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.

Paul Simon

A songwriter’s supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time.
PAUL SIMON

Challenge Simplicity Supreme Time
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.
PAUL SIMON

Automatic Necessary Nervous Scare Try Yourself
The more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh.
PAUL SIMON

Laughter Myself Thinking
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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Escape Influence Powerful Thinking
Far above the golden clouds, the darkness vibrates. The earth is blue. And everything about it is a love song. Everything about it.
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Cloud Darkness Earth Gold Love Song Vibration
And so you see I have come to doubt -All that I once held as true ~ I stand alone without beliefs -The only truth I know is you
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Belief Doubt Known See Stand True Yourself
So I’ll continue to continue to pretend my life will never end, and flowers never bend with the rainfall.
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End Flower Life Myself Pretend Rain
I’ve got a reason to believe we all be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee.
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Believe Reason Recieve
All God requires from us is to enjoy life and love. That’s the whole point.
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Enjoyment God Love Point Requirement
I have my books and my poetry to protect me.
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Book Myself Poetry Protection
I’m laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone, Going home, where the new york city winters aren’t bleedin’ me.
PAUL SIMON

Home Myself Winter
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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Album Myself Record Writing
Losing love is like a window in your heart.
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Heart Broken Lose Love Window
I’ve got nothing to do today but smile.
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Day Myself Self Love Smile
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.
PAUL SIMON

Beginning Known See Writing Yourself
People ask how I feel about getting old. I tell them I have the same question. I’m learning as I go.
PAUL SIMON

Feeling Learning Myself Old People Question

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 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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