My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It’s the only thing I find interesting.
PAUL SIMONHow can you live in the Northeast?
More Paul Simon Quotes
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Serious numbers will speak to us always.
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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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Somewhere in a burst of glory / Sound becomes a song.
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I stepped outside to smoke a J and when I came back to the room, everybody just seemed to move.
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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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It was easier than explaining DiMaggio’s use as a metaphor.
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People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.
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I 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.
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The dialogue between what’s going on in the world and what’s going on internally seems to be a natural thing – well, it’s natural to me, anyway, to have these thoughts.
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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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Then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right, there must be fifty ways to leave your lover.
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Nor is it strange That after changes upon changes, we are more or less the same.
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Someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire.
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Music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.
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We’re living in a certain time, and we’re aware of it. And that’s part of what we’re aware of, along with our own personal aches and pains.
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