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.
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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Someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire.
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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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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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I like them all. They’re all pictures of me when I wrote them. I have no favorite songs.
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Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.
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These are the days of miracle and wonder.
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Maybe I think too much for my own good.
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You want to be a writer, don’t know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.
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And I must be what I must be and face tomorrow.
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I met my old lover on the street last night. She seemed so glad to see me, I just smiled. Then we talked about some old times and we drank ourselves some beers, still crazy after all these years.
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I have my books and my poetry to protect me.
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It’s very helpful to start with something that’s true. If you start with something that’s false, you’re always covering your tracks. Something simple and true, that has a lot of possibilities, is a nice way to begin.
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Time, time, time, see what’s become of me, While I looked around, For my possibilities; I was so hard to please
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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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Serious numbers will speak to us always.
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Who am I to blow against the wind?
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I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It’s chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.
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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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If you’ll be my body guard, I can be your long lost pal.
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The dialogue between what’s going on in the world and what’s going on internally seems to be a natural thing – well, it’s natural to me, anyway, to have these thoughts.
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A songwriter’s supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time.
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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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The phrasing didn’t work as well.
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How can you live in the Northeast?
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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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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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