These are the days of miracle and wonder.
PAUL SIMONThe words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
More Paul Simon Quotes
-
-
Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard.
PAUL SIMON -
By the time I was 12 or 13, I felt that I was special, because I could play the guitar and write songs.
PAUL SIMON -
And you read your emily dickinson, And I my robert frost. And we note our place with bookmarkers That measure what we’ve lost.
PAUL SIMON -
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.
PAUL SIMON -
When I first heard Elvis perform “Bridge Over Trouble Water” it was unbelivable,and I thought to myself, how the hell can I compete with that?
PAUL SIMON -
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.
PAUL SIMON -
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.
PAUL SIMON -
I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I’m through.
PAUL SIMON -
Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.
PAUL SIMON -
Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.
PAUL SIMON -
The course of a lifetime runs/over and over again.
PAUL SIMON -
Breakdowns come, and breakdowns go.
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 -
Music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.
PAUL SIMON -
Time, time, time, see what’s become of me, While I looked around, For my possibilities; I was so hard to please
PAUL SIMON