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 SIMONI met my old lover on the street last night. She seemed so glad to see me, I just smiled. Then we talked about some old times and we drank ourselves some beers, still crazy after all these years.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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After all those years of automatic success, you don’t get nervous any more. It’s really necessary to be nervous and be a little bit frightened. It pumps the adrenalin into you and you really get down there and try.
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It was easier than explaining DiMaggio’s use as a metaphor.
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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.
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I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It’s chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.
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I’ve got nothing to do today but smile.
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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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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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I’ve got a reason to believe we all be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee.
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Serious numbers will speak to us always.
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The course of a lifetime runs/over and over again.
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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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She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy I said ‘Be careful his bowtie is really a camera’
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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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I met my old lover on the street last night. She seemed so glad to see me, I just smiled. Then we talked about some old times and we drank ourselves some beers, still crazy after all these years.
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Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.
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