When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it’s a wonder I can think at all.
PAUL SIMONWe work our jobs, collect our pay, believe were gliding down the highway, when in fact we’re slip sliding away.
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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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Nor is it strange That after changes upon changes, we are more or less the same.
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Music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.
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Maybe I think too much for my own good.
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Life I love you, all is groovy.
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The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.
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Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.
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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.
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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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The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.
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Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.
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How can you live in the Northeast?
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Someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire.
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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 consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I’m growing.
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