I’ve got nothing to do today but smile.
PAUL SIMONSerious numbers will speak to us always.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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You want to be a writer, don’t know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.
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We’ve survived by believing our life is going to get better.
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Life I love you, all is groovy.
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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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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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I stepped outside to smoke a J and when I came back to the room, everybody just seemed to move.
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We work our jobs, collect our pay, believe were gliding down the highway, when in fact we’re slip sliding away.
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And I must be what I must be and face tomorrow.
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I don’t consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I’m growing.
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The degree of customization possible through your Preferences screens is awesome.
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People talking without speaking, People listening without hearing, Sounds of Silence.
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One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor.
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How can you live in the Northeast?
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No one dare disturb the sound of silence.
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I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.
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The course of a lifetime runs/over and over again.
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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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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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I don’t think [Dylan and the Beatles] influenced me a lot. I think it was inevitable; they were so powerful that you couldn’t really escape the influence.
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People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.
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You know, life is what you make of it- so beautiful or so what.
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I have my books and my poetry to protect me.
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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.
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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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So I’ll continue to continue to pretend my life will never end, and flowers never bend with the rainfall.
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