The trick is, as I know it, is to care like hell and not give a damn at the same time.
PAUL SIMONThe trick is, as I know it, is to care like hell and not give a damn at the same time.
PAUL SIMONI 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.
PAUL SIMONMusic is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.
PAUL SIMONPeople ask how I feel about getting old. I tell them I have the same question. I’m learning as I go.
PAUL SIMONThere’s something about the sound of a train that’s very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.
PAUL SIMONSo I’ll continue to continue to pretend my life will never end, and flowers never bend with the rainfall.
PAUL SIMONI stepped outside to smoke a J and when I came back to the room, everybody just seemed to move.
PAUL SIMONI’ve got a reason to believe we all be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee.
PAUL SIMONI 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.
PAUL SIMONWhen I first heard Elvis perform “Bridge Over Trouble Water” it was unbelivable,and I thought to myself, how the hell can I compete with that?
PAUL SIMONMaybe the heart is part of the mist. And that’s all that there is or could ever exist. Maybe and maybe and maybe some more. Maybe’s the exit that I’m looking for.
PAUL SIMONIt was the year of the Beatles, it was the year of the Stones, it was 1964.
PAUL SIMONWe’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.
PAUL SIMONA 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.
PAUL SIMONWe 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.
PAUL SIMONI try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don’t get sentimental. I think we’re all afraid to reveal our hearts. It’s not at all in fashion.
PAUL SIMON