When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it’s a wonder I can think at all.
PAUL SIMONMy whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It’s the only thing I find interesting.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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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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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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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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A songwriter’s supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time.
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The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
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The phrasing didn’t work as well.
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Just 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.
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It’s actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.
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I’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.
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Somewhere in a burst of glory / Sound becomes a song.
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We’re living in a certain time, and we’re aware of it. And that’s part of what we’re aware of, along with our own personal aches and pains.
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How can you live in the Northeast?
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Then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right, there must be fifty ways to leave your lover.
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I regret the ending of our friendship and hope one day before we die, we’ll make peace with each other . . . No rush.
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The course of a lifetime runs/over and over again.
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