People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.
PAUL SIMONTime, time, time, see what’s become of me, While I looked around, For my possibilities; I was so hard to please
More Paul Simon Quotes
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The more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh.
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The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.
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If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you’ve created a special little thing, and that’s what I’m looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.
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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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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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I don’t very often think I’ve done a good job. I don’t like the majority of what I do. I shouldn’t say I don’t like it, but I’m not satisfied with almost everything that I do.
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And she said ‘Losing love is like a window in your heart, Everybody sees you’re blown apart, Everybody feels the wind blow.’
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Maybe I think too much for my own good.
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How can you live in the Northeast?
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I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don’t get sentimental. I think we’re all afraid to reveal our hearts. It’s not at all in fashion.
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She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy I said ‘Be careful his bowtie is really a camera’
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A songwriter’s supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time.
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When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it’s a wonder I can think at all.
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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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All I’ve got to do today is smile.
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