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.
PAUL SIMONShe said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy I said ‘Be careful his bowtie is really a camera’
More Paul Simon Quotes
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Losing love is like a window in your heart.
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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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Life I love you, all is groovy.
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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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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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And so you see I have come to doubt -All that I once held as true ~ I stand alone without beliefs -The only truth I know is you
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One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor.
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The phrasing didn’t work as well.
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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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How can you live in the Northeast?
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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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It’s actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.
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So I’ll continue to continue to pretend my life will never end, and flowers never bend with the rainfall.
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And I must be what I must be and face tomorrow.
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