I’m laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone, Going home, where the new york city winters aren’t bleedin’ me.
PAUL SIMONThese are the days of miracle and wonder.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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A songwriter’s supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time.
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The course of a lifetime runs/over and over again.
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I met my old lover on the street last night, she seemed glad to see me.
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I’ve got a reason to believe we all be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee.
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One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor.
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Cecilia was made in a living room on a Sony. It was like a little piece of magical fluff, bur it works. El Condor Pasa a Los Incas record that I love. Bridge is a very strong melodic song.
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I don’t think [Dylan and the Beatles] influenced me a lot. I think it was inevitable; they were so powerful that you couldn’t really escape the influence.
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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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I’ve got nothing to do today but smile.
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Maybe I think too much for my own good.
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The abstract music is just more interesting because it doesn’t really have anything to say, but if it is good, it creates thoughts and feelings, and I enjoy that. For me, once the music creates those thoughts and feelings, I begin to write a song about it.
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How can you live in the Northeast?
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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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Time it was And what a time it was, it was A time of innocence A time of confidences Long ago it must be I have a photograph Preserve your memories They’re all that’s left you.
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You know, life is what you make of it- so beautiful or so what.
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