I feel I should try to reveal. When you hit it right, you produce an emotional response in the listener that can be cathartic. When you’re wrong, you’re soppy, sentimental.
PAUL SIMONHow can you live in the Northeast?
More Paul Simon Quotes
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When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it’s a wonder I can think at all.
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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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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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It was easier than explaining DiMaggio’s use as a metaphor.
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Serious numbers will speak to us always.
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The degree of customization possible through your Preferences screens is awesome.
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I like them all. They’re all pictures of me when I wrote them. I have no favorite songs.
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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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The more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh.
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Maybe I think too much for my own good.
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The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
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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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Sail on silver girl Sail on by Your time has come to shine All your dreams are on their way See how they shine Oh, if you need a friend I’m sailing right behind.
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I met my old lover on the street last night, she seemed glad to see me.
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It’s actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.
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