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Given all the facts that I’m young and I’m in good health and I’m famous – that I have talent, I have money – given all these facts, I want to know why I’m so unhappy.

Paul Simon

Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard.
PAUL SIMON

End Grave Result
I like them all. They’re all pictures of me when I wrote them. I have no favorite songs.
PAUL SIMON

Myself Photograph Song Writing
Given all the facts that I’m young and I’m in good health and I’m famous – that I have talent, I have money – given all these facts, I want to know why I’m so unhappy.
PAUL SIMON

Fact Goodness Happiness Health Money Myself Young
I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.
PAUL SIMON

Arrange Artist Element Live Myself
There must be 50 ways to leave your lover.
PAUL SIMON

Break Up Leave Lover
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
Take two bodies and you twirl them into one, their hearts and their bones, and they won’t come undone.
PAUL SIMON

Body Bone Heart
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.
PAUL SIMON

Album Myself Record Writing
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.
PAUL SIMON

Appearance Break Flower God Ordinary Player Vanity
Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.
PAUL SIMON

Death Follow Forever Growth Music Right Yourself
It was easier than explaining DiMaggio’s use as a metaphor.
PAUL SIMON

Explaining Metaphor
No one dare disturb the sound of silence.
PAUL SIMON

Dare Disturb Oneself Silence Sound
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

Abstract Beginning Creation Interesting Music Song Writing
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
One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor.
PAUL SIMON

Floor Man Oneself
Then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right, there must be fifty ways to leave your lover.
PAUL SIMON

Herself Kiss Lover Myself Realize

Given all the facts that I’m young and I’m in good health and I’m famous – that I have talent, I have money – given all these facts, I want to know why I’m so unhappy.

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