The course of a lifetime runs/over and over again.
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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Take me. I’m an ordinary player in the key of C. And my will was broken by my pride and my vanity. Who’s gonna love you when you’re looks are gone? God will. Like he waters the flowers on your window sill.
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A songwriter’s supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time.
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Serious numbers will speak to us always.
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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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We’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.
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The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.
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Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard.
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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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I’m laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone, Going home, where the new york city winters aren’t bleedin’ me.
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When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it’s a wonder I can think at all.
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People talking without speaking, People listening without hearing, Sounds of Silence.
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How can you live in the Northeast?
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Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
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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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I like them all. They’re all pictures of me when I wrote them. I have no favorite songs.
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