I 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 SIMONFaith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.
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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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.
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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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By the time I was 12 or 13, I felt that I was special, because I could play the guitar and write songs.
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Was a sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. Not a negative word was heard.
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Nor is it strange That after changes upon changes, we are more or less the same.
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It was easier than explaining DiMaggio’s use as a metaphor.
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Someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire.
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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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A 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.
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There is a moment, a chip in time, when leaving home is the lesser crime.
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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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Life I love you, all is groovy.
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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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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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