Far above the golden clouds, the darkness vibrates. The earth is blue. And everything about it is a love song. Everything about it.
PAUL SIMONI stepped outside to smoke a J and when I came back to the room, everybody just seemed to move.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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The course of a lifetime runs/over and over again.
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Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.
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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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Life I love you, all is groovy.
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If you’ll be my body guard, I can be your long lost pal.
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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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People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.
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When 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?
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Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard.
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I’ve got a reason to believe we all be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee.
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The phrasing didn’t work as well.
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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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Sail on silver girl Sail on by Your time has come to shine All your dreams are on their way See how they shine Oh, if you need a friend I’m sailing right behind.
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A songwriter’s supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time.
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The degree of customization possible through your Preferences screens is awesome.
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You know, life is what you make of it- so beautiful or so what.
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Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
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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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Serious numbers will speak to us always.
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Was a sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. Not a negative word was heard.
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Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.
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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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Take two bodies and you twirl them into one, their hearts and their bones, and they won’t come undone.
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Artie is a singer, and I’m a writer and player and a singer. We didn’t work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.
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Nor is it strange That after changes upon changes, we are more or less the same.
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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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