Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.
PAUL SIMONAll I’ve got to do today is smile.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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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 record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.
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Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
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The trick is, as I know it, is to care like hell and not give a damn at the same time.
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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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There is a moment, a chip in time, when leaving home is the lesser crime.
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I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I’m through.
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Losing love is like a window in your heart.
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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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No one dare disturb the sound of silence.
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Take me. I’m an ordinary player in the key of C. And my will was broken by my pride and my vanity. Who’s gonna love you when you’re looks are gone? God will. Like he waters the flowers on your window sill.
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I have my books and my poetry to protect me.
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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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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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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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