How can you live in the Northeast?
PAUL SIMONThe more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh.
More Paul Simon Quotes
-
-
The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.
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 -
Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.
PAUL SIMON -
Someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire.
PAUL SIMON -
Time it was And what a time it was, it was A time of innocence A time of confidences Long ago it must be I have a photograph Preserve your memories They’re all that’s left you.
PAUL SIMON -
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.
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 -
And I must be what I must be and face tomorrow.
PAUL SIMON -
Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.
PAUL SIMON -
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.
PAUL SIMON -
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.
PAUL SIMON -
A lot of talent is a gift, but a lot is also luck. I’m very aware of that. I was born in the right place at the right time. I am also blessed because I’ve never been a sex symbol. I’m spared the embarrassment of acting young.
PAUL SIMON -
Life I love you, all is groovy.
PAUL SIMON -
Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.
PAUL SIMON -
The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
PAUL SIMON