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A songwriter’s supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time.

Paul Simon

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.
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Death Follow Forever Growth Music Right Yourself
And she said ‘Losing love is like a window in your heart, Everybody sees you’re blown apart, Everybody feels the wind blow.’
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Feeling Herself Lose Love Window
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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Aware Live Myself Pain Personal Time
When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it’s a wonder I can think at all.
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Learning Myself Thinking Wonder
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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Goodness Majority Myself Satisfaction Thinking
Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.
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Mystery Simplicity
Maybe I think too much for my own good.
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Goodness Myself Thinking
We had many more points of agreement than we had points of difference, but we did differ, and the bigger we got, the more insistent we got that each one of us should have his way.
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Agreement Difference Oneself Point Way
All I’ve got to do today is smile.
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One Liner Smile
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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Beginning Known See Writing Yourself
Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.
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Chance Goodness Improvement Leave
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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Act Aware Embarrassment Gift Luck Symbol Talent Time Young
I met my old lover on the street last night. She seemed so glad to see me, I just smiled. Then we talked about some old times and we drank ourselves some beers, still crazy after all these years.
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Crazy Happiness Lover Old Ourselves Time
Breakdowns come, and breakdowns go.
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Breakdown Heart Broken
The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.
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Better Heart Life Ourselves Thinking
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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Fact Goodness Happiness Health Money Myself Young

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