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.
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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A lot of talent is a gift, but a lot is also luck. I’m very aware of that. I was born in the right place at the right time. I am also blessed because I’ve never been a sex symbol. I’m spared the embarrassment of acting young.
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Serious numbers will speak to us always.
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Was a sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. Not a negative word was heard.
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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.
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I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won’t do is change the essence of my work.
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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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I regret the ending of our friendship and hope one day before we die, we’ll make peace with each other . . . No rush.
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You know, life is what you make of it- so beautiful or so what.
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And I must be what I must be and face tomorrow.
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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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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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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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One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor.
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People ask how I feel about getting old. I tell them I have the same question. I’m learning as I go.
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Breakdowns come, and breakdowns go.
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By the time I was 12 or 13, I felt that I was special, because I could play the guitar and write songs.
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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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Who am I to blow against the wind?
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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
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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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Maybe the heart is part of the mist. And that’s all that there is or could ever exist. Maybe and maybe and maybe some more. Maybe’s the exit that I’m looking for.
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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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These are the days of miracle and wonder.
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All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
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Someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire.
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Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?
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