How much can you do with two voices? You can sing thirds or you can sing fifths or you can do a background harmony.
PAUL SIMONTake two bodies and you twirl them into one, their hearts and their bones, and they won’t come undone.
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I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It’s chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.
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People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.
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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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Take two bodies and you twirl them into one, their hearts and their bones, and they won’t come undone.
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The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.
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No one dare disturb the sound of silence.
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And I must be what I must be and face tomorrow.
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It was the year of the Beatles, it was the year of the Stones, it was 1964.
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I feel I should try to reveal. When you hit it right, you produce an emotional response in the listener that can be cathartic. When you’re wrong, you’re soppy, sentimental.
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People talking without speaking, People listening without hearing, Sounds of Silence.
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There is a moment, a chip in time, when leaving home is the lesser crime.
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Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard.
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Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do.
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The degree of customization possible through your Preferences screens is awesome.
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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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