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.
PAUL SIMONI’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.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
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Serious numbers will speak to us always.
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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 want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I’m through.
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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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The trick is, as I know it, is to care like hell and not give a damn at the same time.
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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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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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I’ve got a reason to believe we all be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee.
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I have my books and my poetry to protect me.
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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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And I must be what I must be and face tomorrow.
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These are the days of miracle and wonder.
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We’ve survived by believing our life is going to get better.
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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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