How can you live in the Northeast?
PAUL SIMONMusic is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.
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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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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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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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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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There must be 50 ways to leave your lover.
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Nor is it strange That after changes upon changes, we are more or less the same.
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She said a good day ain’t got no rain She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed And I think of things that might have been.
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If you’ll be my body guard, I can be your long lost pal.
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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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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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No one dare disturb the sound of silence.
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It’s actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.
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Maybe 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.
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Just slip out the back, Jack, make a new plan, Stan, you don’t need to be coy, Roy, just get yourself free. Hop on the bus, Gus, you don’t need to discuss much, just drop off the key, Lee, and get yourself free.
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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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