After all those years of automatic success, you don’t get nervous any more. It’s really necessary to be nervous and be a little bit frightened. It pumps the adrenalin into you and you really get down there and try.
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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These are the days of miracle and wonder.
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One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor.
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The course of a lifetime runs/over and over again.
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I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won’t do is change the essence of my work.
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If you’ll be my body guard, I can be your long lost pal.
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Someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire.
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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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And I must be what I must be and face tomorrow.
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Maybe I think too much for my own good.
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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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Music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.
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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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Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.
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The degree of customization possible through your Preferences screens is awesome.
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Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.
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Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
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A songwriter’s supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time.
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All God requires from us is to enjoy life and love. That’s the whole point.
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I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don’t get sentimental. I think we’re all afraid to reveal our hearts. It’s not at all in fashion.
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People talking without speaking, People listening without hearing, Sounds of Silence.
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We work our jobs, collect our pay, believe were gliding down the highway, when in fact we’re slip sliding away.
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There must be 50 ways to leave your lover.
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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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My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It’s the only thing I find interesting.
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The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.
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