Music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.
PAUL SIMONThe more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh.
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It was the year of the Beatles, it was the year of the Stones, it was 1964.
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Maybe I think too much for my own good.
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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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Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.
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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.
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I don’t very often think I’ve done a good job. I don’t like the majority of what I do. I shouldn’t say I don’t like it, but I’m not satisfied with almost everything that I do.
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My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It’s the only thing I find interesting.
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In the clearing stands the boxer, and a fighter by his trade. And he carries a reminder of every glove that laid him down, or cut him till he cried out in his anger and his shame “I am leaving! I am leaving” but the fighter still remains.
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I’m always going forward toward something, and that something is usually an album, because I like to record. I probably like to record more than I like to write.
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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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I’ve got nothing to do today but smile.
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Life I love you, all is groovy.
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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.
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People ask how I feel about getting old. I tell them I have the same question. I’m learning as I go.
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One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor.
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It was easier than explaining DiMaggio’s use as a metaphor.
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When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it’s a wonder I can think at all.
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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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Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?
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Time, time, time, see what’s become of me, While I looked around, For my possibilities; I was so hard to please
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Losing love is like a window in your heart.
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And I must be what I must be and face tomorrow.
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The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.
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The more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh.
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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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And you read your emily dickinson, And I my robert frost. And we note our place with bookmarkers That measure what we’ve lost.
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