Just slip out the back, Jack, make a new plan, Stan, you don’t need to be coy, Roy, just get yourself free. Hop on the bus, Gus, you don’t need to discuss much, just drop off the key, Lee, and get yourself free.
PAUL SIMONTake 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.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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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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The course of a lifetime runs/over and over again.
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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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Cecilia was made in a living room on a Sony. It was like a little piece of magical fluff, bur it works. El Condor Pasa a Los Incas record that I love. Bridge is a very strong melodic song.
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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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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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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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We’ve survived by believing our life is going to get better.
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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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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 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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No one dare disturb the sound of silence.
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If you’ll be my body guard, I can be your long lost pal.
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A songwriter’s supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time.
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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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