Who am I to blow against the wind?
PAUL SIMONI don’t think [Dylan and the Beatles] influenced me a lot. I think it was inevitable; they were so powerful that you couldn’t really escape the influence.
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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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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And I must be what I must be and face tomorrow.
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I regret the ending of our friendship and hope one day before we die, we’ll make peace with each other . . . No rush.
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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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She said a good day ain’t got no rain She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed And I think of things that might have been.
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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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There must be 50 ways to leave your lover.
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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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There are two sorts of people in the world: Those who listen and those who are thinking about what they are going to say next.
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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.
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I don’t consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I’m growing.
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Life I love you, all is groovy.
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Somewhere in a burst of glory / Sound becomes a song.
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