I don’t consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I’m growing.
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.
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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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The more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh.
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All God requires from us is to enjoy life and love. That’s the whole point.
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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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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.
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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.
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We’ve survived by believing our life is going to get better.
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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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If you’ll be my body guard, I can be your long lost pal.
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The degree of customization possible through your Preferences screens is awesome.
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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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And so you see I have come to doubt -All that I once held as true ~ I stand alone without beliefs -The only truth I know is you
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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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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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We work our jobs, collect our pay, believe were gliding down the highway, when in fact we’re slip sliding away.
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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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And I must be what I must be and face tomorrow.
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One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor.
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Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.
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People talking without speaking, People listening without hearing, Sounds of Silence.
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And you read your emily dickinson, And I my robert frost. And we note our place with bookmarkers That measure what we’ve lost.
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Music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.
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I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don’t get sentimental. I think we’re all afraid to reveal our hearts. It’s not at all in fashion.
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Take two bodies and you twirl them into one, their hearts and their bones, and they won’t come undone.
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How can you live in the Northeast?
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