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 SIMONThe more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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Given all the facts that I’m young and I’m in good health and I’m famous – that I have talent, I have money – given all these facts, I want to know why I’m so unhappy.
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Artie is a singer, and I’m a writer and player and a singer. We didn’t work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.
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I have my books and my poetry to protect me.
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It’s very helpful to start with something that’s true. If you start with something that’s false, you’re always covering your tracks. Something simple and true, that has a lot of possibilities, is a nice way to begin.
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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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Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.
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Losing love is like a window in your heart.
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I met my old lover on the street last night, she seemed glad to see me.
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Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.
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Someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire.
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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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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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You know, life is what you make of it- so beautiful or so what.
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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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I stepped outside to smoke a J and when I came back to the room, everybody just seemed to move.
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