People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.
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 God requires from us is to enjoy life and love. That’s the whole point.
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I 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.
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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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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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In the clearing stands the boxer, and a fighter by his trade. And he carries a reminder of every glove that laid him down, or cut him till he cried out in his anger and his shame “I am leaving! I am leaving” but the fighter still remains.
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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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I don’t very often think I’ve done a good job. I don’t like the majority of what I do. I shouldn’t say I don’t like it, but I’m not satisfied with almost everything that I do.
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Take me. I’m an ordinary player in the key of C. And my will was broken by my pride and my vanity. Who’s gonna love you when you’re looks are gone? God will. Like he waters the flowers on your window sill.
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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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One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor.
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A songwriter’s supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time.
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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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All I’ve got to do today is smile.
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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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The course of a lifetime runs/over and over again.
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