I have my books and my poetry to protect me.
PAUL SIMONAfter 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.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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No one dare disturb the sound of silence.
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We work our jobs, collect our pay, believe were gliding down the highway, when in fact we’re slip sliding away.
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There must be 50 ways to leave your lover.
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When I first heard Elvis perform “Bridge Over Trouble Water” it was unbelivable,and I thought to myself, how the hell can I compete with that?
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The course of a lifetime runs/over and over again.
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Cecilia was made in a living room on a Sony. It was like a little piece of magical fluff, bur it works. El Condor Pasa a Los Incas record that I love. Bridge is a very strong melodic song.
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Was a sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. Not a negative word was heard.
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The trick is, as I know it, is to care like hell and not give a damn at the same time.
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Losing love is like a window in your heart.
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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 don’t feel any pressure from fans. But I’m always in some kind of state of emotional turmoil. I would not describe myself as happy-go-lucky. That’s not to say that I’m not happy.
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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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Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
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We’ve survived by believing our life is going to get better.
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The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
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