Then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right, there must be fifty ways to leave your lover.
PAUL SIMONThen she kissed me and I realized she probably was right, there must be fifty ways to leave your lover.
PAUL SIMONThe phrasing didn’t work as well.
PAUL SIMONDon’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard.
PAUL SIMONI 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 SIMONJust slip out the back, Jack, make a new plan, Stan, you don’t need to be coy, Roy, just get yourself free. Hop on the bus, Gus, you don’t need to discuss much, just drop off the key, Lee, and get yourself free.
PAUL SIMONThe record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.
PAUL SIMONI 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 SIMONYou know, life is what you make of it- so beautiful or so what.
PAUL SIMONShe said a good day ain’t got no rain She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed And I think of things that might have been.
PAUL SIMONMy whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It’s the only thing I find interesting.
PAUL SIMONAnd you read your emily dickinson, And I my robert frost. And we note our place with bookmarkers That measure what we’ve lost.
PAUL SIMONFar above the golden clouds, the darkness vibrates. The earth is blue. And everything about it is a love song. Everything about it.
PAUL SIMONThe trick is, as I know it, is to care like hell and not give a damn at the same time.
PAUL SIMONThe words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
PAUL SIMONGiven 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 SIMONA 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.
PAUL SIMON