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I don’t know what I’m going to write when I begin to write. It feels like you are walking down a path, but you can’t see around the bend and you don’t know where you are going to go, which is fun.

Paul Simon

If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you’ve created a special little thing, and that’s what I’m looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.
PAUL SIMON

Creation Humor Lose Serious Time Yourself
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

Eat Food Inspiration Myself
Serious numbers will speak to us always.
PAUL SIMON

Myself Serious Talk
It was the year of the Beatles, it was the year of the Stones, it was 1964.
PAUL SIMON

Age Time
All I’ve got to do today is smile.
PAUL SIMON

One Liner Smile
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.
PAUL SIMON

Automatic Necessary Nervous Scare Try Yourself
I stepped outside to smoke a J and when I came back to the room, everybody just seemed to move.
PAUL SIMON

Move Myself Room Smoke
It was easier than explaining DiMaggio’s use as a metaphor.
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Explaining Metaphor
She said a good day ain’t got no rain She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed And I think of things that might have been.
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Bad Day Goodness Myself Rain Thinking
Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.
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Evidence Faith Hope Line Sun
One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor.
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Floor Man Oneself
I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won’t do is change the essence of my work.
PAUL SIMON

Art Essence Happiness Myself Willing Work
The phrasing didn’t work as well.
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Phrase Well Work
How can you live in the Northeast?
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Live Place
Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.
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Believe Brick Myself Natural Power Wall
Breakdowns come, and breakdowns go.
PAUL SIMON

Breakdown Heart Broken

I don’t know what I’m going to write when I begin to write. It feels like you are walking down a path, but you can’t see around the bend and you don’t know where you are going to go, which is fun.

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I don’t know what I’m going to write when I begin to write. It feels like you are walking down a path, but you can’t see around the bend and you don’t know where you are going to go, which is fun.

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