I don’t feel any pressure from fans. But I’m always in some kind of state of emotional turmoil. I would not describe myself as happy-go-lucky. That’s not to say that I’m not happy.
PAUL SIMONHaving a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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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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There are two sorts of people in the world: Those who listen and those who are thinking about what they are going to say next.
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Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.
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I’ve got nothing to do today but smile.
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When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.
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Was a sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. Not a negative word was heard.
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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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Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do.
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Given all the facts that I’m young and I’m in good health and I’m famous – that I have talent, I have money – given all these facts, I want to know why I’m so unhappy.
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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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I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.
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I stepped outside to smoke a J and when I came back to the room, everybody just seemed to move.
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Somewhere in a burst of glory / Sound becomes a song.
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It’s actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.
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The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
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