No one dare disturb the sound of silence.
PAUL SIMONThe 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.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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Who am I to blow against the wind?
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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.
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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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The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.
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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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I’ve got a reason to believe we all be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee.
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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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I like them all. They’re all pictures of me when I wrote them. I have no favorite songs.
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Somewhere in a burst of glory / Sound becomes a song.
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There must be 50 ways to leave your lover.
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The more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh.
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There are two sorts of people in the world: Those who listen and those who are thinking about what they are going to say next.
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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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Nor is it strange That after changes upon changes, we are more or less the same.
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One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor.
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