A songwriter’s supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time.
PAUL SIMONFar above the golden clouds, the darkness vibrates. The earth is blue. And everything about it is a love song. Everything about it.
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The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.
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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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How can you live in the Northeast?
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If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you’ve created a special little thing, and that’s what I’m looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.
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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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All I’ve got to do today is smile.
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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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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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Maybe I think too much for my own good.
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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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And I must be what I must be and face tomorrow.
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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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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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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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Nor is it strange That after changes upon changes, we are more or less the same.
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