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Time, time, time, see what’s become of me, While I looked around, For my possibilities; I was so hard to please

Paul Simon

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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Kind Magic Music People Perfection
I’ve got a reason to believe we all be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee.
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Believe Reason Recieve
Just slip out the back, Jack, make a new plan, Stan, you don’t need to be coy, Roy, just get yourself free. Hop on the bus, Gus, you don’t need to discuss much, just drop off the key, Lee, and get yourself free.
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Back Discussion Freedom Need Planning Yourself
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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Eat Food Inspiration Myself
The more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh.
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Laughter Myself Thinking
Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.
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Mystery Simplicity
The phrasing didn’t work as well.
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Phrase Well Work
People talking without speaking, People listening without hearing, Sounds of Silence.
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Listening People Silence Sound Talk
I like them all. They’re all pictures of me when I wrote them. I have no favorite songs.
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Myself Photograph Song Writing
How can you live in the Northeast?
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Live Place
And you read your emily dickinson, And I my robert frost. And we note our place with bookmarkers That measure what we’ve lost.
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Lost Measurement Note Place Reading
All I’ve got to do today is smile.
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One Liner Smile
I met my old lover on the street last night, she seemed glad to see me.
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Happiness Lover Myself Old See Street
And so you see I have come to doubt -All that I once held as true ~ I stand alone without beliefs -The only truth I know is you
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Belief Doubt Known See Stand True Yourself
I’ve got nothing to do today but smile.
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Day Myself Self Love Smile
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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Abstract Beginning Creation Interesting Music Song Writing

Time, time, time, see what’s become of me, While I looked around, For my possibilities; I was so hard to please

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