She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy I said ‘Be careful his bowtie is really a camera’
PAUL SIMONThe 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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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 met my old lover on the street last night, she seemed glad to see me.
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Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard.
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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 have my books and my poetry to protect me.
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Serious numbers will speak to us always.
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Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.
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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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All God requires from us is to enjoy life and love. That’s the whole point.
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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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Music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.
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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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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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It was easier than explaining DiMaggio’s use as a metaphor.
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