We work our jobs, collect our pay, believe were gliding down the highway, when in fact we’re slip sliding away.
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.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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How can you live in the Northeast?
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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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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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People talking without speaking, People listening without hearing, Sounds of Silence.
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How much can you do with two voices? You can sing thirds or you can sing fifths or you can do a background harmony.
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You want to be a writer, don’t know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.
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I’ve got a reason to believe we all be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee.
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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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Losing love is like a window in your heart.
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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’ve got nothing to do today but smile.
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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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I like them all. They’re all pictures of me when I wrote them. I have no favorite songs.
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Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.
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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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