The more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh.
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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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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The degree of customization possible through your Preferences screens is awesome.
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When I first heard Elvis perform “Bridge Over Trouble Water” it was unbelivable,and I thought to myself, how the hell can I compete with that?
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Nor is it strange That after changes upon changes, we are more or less the same.
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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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How much can you do with two voices? You can sing thirds or you can sing fifths or you can do a background harmony.
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Losing love is like a window in your heart.
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Someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire.
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Far above the golden clouds, the darkness vibrates. The earth is blue. And everything about it is a love song. Everything about it.
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Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
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We had many more points of agreement than we had points of difference, but we did differ, and the bigger we got, the more insistent we got that each one of us should have his way.
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In the clearing stands the boxer, and a fighter by his trade. And he carries a reminder of every glove that laid him down, or cut him till he cried out in his anger and his shame “I am leaving! I am leaving” but the fighter still remains.
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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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The phrasing didn’t work as well.
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