I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won’t do is change the essence of my work.
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.
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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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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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All I’ve got to do today is smile.
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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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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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Life I love you, all is groovy.
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I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don’t get sentimental. I think we’re all afraid to reveal our hearts. It’s not at all in fashion.
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Serious numbers will speak to us always.
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I like them all. They’re all pictures of me when I wrote them. I have no favorite songs.
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Who am I to blow against the wind?
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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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Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.
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Anthony Heilbut has been a guide and a mentor to me. I know of no one who has the love and depth of knowledge of this extraordinary author.
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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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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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