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.
PAUL SIMONFar above the golden clouds, the darkness vibrates. The earth is blue. And everything about it is a love song. Everything about it.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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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 a reason to believe we all be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee.
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Sail on silver girl Sail on by Your time has come to shine All your dreams are on their way See how they shine Oh, if you need a friend I’m sailing right behind.
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People ask how I feel about getting old. I tell them I have the same question. I’m learning as I go.
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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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And you read your emily dickinson, And I my robert frost. And we note our place with bookmarkers That measure what we’ve lost.
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Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?
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All I’ve got to do today is smile.
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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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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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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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If you’ll be my body guard, I can be your long lost pal.
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Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.
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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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I don’t know what I’m going to write when I begin to write. It feels like you are walking down a path, but you can’t see around the bend and you don’t know where you are going to go, which is fun.
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