When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it’s a wonder I can think at all.
PAUL SIMONThe more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
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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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Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.
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All God requires from us is to enjoy life and love. That’s the whole point.
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The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.
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Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.
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Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.
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I met my old lover on the street last night, she seemed glad to see me.
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One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor.
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Maybe the heart is part of the mist. And that’s all that there is or could ever exist. Maybe and maybe and maybe some more. Maybe’s the exit that I’m looking for.
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By the time I was 12 or 13, I felt that I was special, because I could play the guitar and write songs.
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There must be 50 ways to leave your lover.
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Music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.
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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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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.
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