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All I’ve got to do today is smile.

Paul Simon

Anthony Heilbut has been a guide and a mentor to me. I know of no one who has the love and depth of knowledge of this extraordinary author.
PAUL SIMON

Author Guide Knowledge Mentor Myself
Take two bodies and you twirl them into one, their hearts and their bones, and they won’t come undone.
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Body Bone Heart
Losing love is like a window in your heart.
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Heart Broken Lose Love Window
After all those years of automatic success, you don’t get nervous any more. It’s really necessary to be nervous and be a little bit frightened. It pumps the adrenalin into you and you really get down there and try.
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Automatic Necessary Nervous Scare Try Yourself
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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Emotion Fashion Heart Open Reality
So I’ll continue to continue to pretend my life will never end, and flowers never bend with the rainfall.
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End Flower Life Myself Pretend Rain
I don’t feel any pressure from fans. But I’m always in some kind of state of emotional turmoil. I would not describe myself as happy-go-lucky. That’s not to say that I’m not happy.
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Description Fans Feeling Happiness Myself Pressure State
We’re living in a certain time, and we’re aware of it. And that’s part of what we’re aware of, along with our own personal aches and pains.
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Aware Live Myself Pain Personal Time
Breakdowns come, and breakdowns go.
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Breakdown Heart Broken
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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Appearance Break Flower God Ordinary Player Vanity
All God requires from us is to enjoy life and love. That’s the whole point.
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Enjoyment God Love Point Requirement
Life I love you, all is groovy.
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I Love You Life Myself
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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Existence Heart Myself
You know, life is what you make of it- so beautiful or so what.
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Beautiful Life Yourself
The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.
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Company Finish Myself Record Stay
Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?
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Hard Time Life Myself Soft
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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Escape Influence Powerful Thinking
Who am I to blow against the wind?
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Blow Myself Wind
I’m laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone, Going home, where the new york city winters aren’t bleedin’ me.
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Home Myself Winter
Serious numbers will speak to us always.
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Myself Serious Talk
The phrasing didn’t work as well.
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Phrase Well Work
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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Feeling Guitar Play Song Time Writing
Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.
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Mystery Simplicity
No one dare disturb the sound of silence.
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Dare Disturb Oneself Silence Sound
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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Death Each Other Friendship Hope Peace Regret
I’m always going forward toward something, and that something is usually an album, because I like to record. I probably like to record more than I like to write.
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Album Myself Record Writing
There is a moment, a chip in time, when leaving home is the lesser crime.
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Crime Leave Moments Time

All I’ve got to do today is smile.

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