So I’ll continue to continue to pretend my life will never end, and flowers never bend with the rainfall.
PAUL SIMONWhen I first heard Elvis perform “Bridge Over Trouble Water” it was unbelivable,and I thought to myself, how the hell can I compete with that?
More Paul Simon Quotes
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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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Cecilia was made in a living room on a Sony. It was like a little piece of magical fluff, bur it works. El Condor Pasa a Los Incas record that I love. Bridge is a very strong melodic song.
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Take two bodies and you twirl them into one, their hearts and their bones, and they won’t come undone.
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Artie is a singer, and I’m a writer and player and a singer. We didn’t work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.
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I’ve got nothing to do today but smile.
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Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.
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People talking without speaking, People listening without hearing, Sounds of Silence.
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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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Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.
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The course of a lifetime runs/over and over again.
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Losing love is like a window in your heart.
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I don’t know what I’m going to write when I begin to write. It feels like you are walking down a path, but you can’t see around the bend and you don’t know where you are going to go, which is fun.
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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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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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It was the year of the Beatles, it was the year of the Stones, it was 1964.
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