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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.

Paul Simon

The dialogue between what’s going on in the world and what’s going on internally seems to be a natural thing – well, it’s natural to me, anyway, to have these thoughts.
PAUL SIMON

Myself Natural Thinking World
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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Camera Care Man Myself
How much can you do with two voices? You can sing thirds or you can sing fifths or you can do a background harmony.
PAUL SIMON

Harmony Sing Voice Yourself
And she said ‘Losing love is like a window in your heart, Everybody sees you’re blown apart, Everybody feels the wind blow.’
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Feeling Herself Lose Love Window
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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Act Aware Embarrassment Gift Luck Symbol Talent Time Young
Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.
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Death Follow Forever Growth Music Right Yourself
All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
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Himself Lying Man Regard
There must be 50 ways to leave your lover.
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Break Up Leave Lover
Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard.
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End Grave Result
Then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right, there must be fifty ways to leave your lover.
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Herself Kiss Lover Myself Realize
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
My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It’s the only thing I find interesting.
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Artistic Change Finding Interesting Life Myself
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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Feeling Learning Myself Old People Question
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
The more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh.
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Laughter Myself Thinking
Time it was And what a time it was, it was A time of innocence A time of confidences Long ago it must be I have a photograph Preserve your memories They’re all that’s left you.
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Innocence Memories Preservation Time Yourself
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
The phrasing didn’t work as well.
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Phrase Well Work
If you’ll be my body guard, I can be your long lost pal.
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Body Friendship Guard Myself
People talking without speaking, People listening without hearing, Sounds of Silence.
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Listening People Silence Sound Talk
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
I stepped outside to smoke a J and when I came back to the room, everybody just seemed to move.
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Move Myself Room Smoke
You want to be a writer, don’t know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.
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Humble Known Pen Place Quiet Writing Yourself
Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.
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Believe Brick Myself Natural Power Wall
We’ve survived by believing our life is going to get better.
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Believe Better Hope Life Survive
You know, life is what you make of it- so beautiful or so what.
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Beautiful Life Yourself
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.
PAUL SIMON

Emotional Feeling Listening Myself Reveal Right Sentimental

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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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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