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.
PAUL SIMONIf 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.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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And I must be what I must be and face tomorrow.
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I’m always going forward toward something, and that something is usually an album, because I like to record. I probably like to record more than I like to write.
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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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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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Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.
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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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Who am I to blow against the wind?
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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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There’s something about the sound of a train that’s very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.
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Then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right, there must be fifty ways to leave your lover.
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How can you live in the Northeast?
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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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You know, life is what you make of it- so beautiful or so what.
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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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I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I’m through.
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