People talking without speaking, People listening without hearing, Sounds of Silence.
PAUL SIMON
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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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People talking without speaking, People listening without hearing, Sounds of Silence.
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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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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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It was the year of the Beatles, it was the year of the Stones, it was 1964.
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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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I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It’s chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.
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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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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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The dialogue between what’s going on in the world and what’s going on internally seems to be a natural thing – well, it’s natural to me, anyway, to have these thoughts.
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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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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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So I’ll continue to continue to pretend my life will never end, and flowers never bend with the rainfall.
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It’s very helpful to start with something that’s true. If you start with something that’s false, you’re always covering your tracks. Something simple and true, that has a lot of possibilities, is a nice way to begin.
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The phrasing didn’t work as well.
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