My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It’s the only thing I find interesting.
PAUL SIMONBreakdowns come, and breakdowns go.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard.
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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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Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.
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Given all the facts that I’m young and I’m in good health and I’m famous – that I have talent, I have money – given all these facts, I want to know why I’m so unhappy.
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There is a moment, a chip in time, when leaving home is the lesser crime.
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And I must be what I must be and face tomorrow.
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The phrasing didn’t work as well.
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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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It was easier than explaining DiMaggio’s use as a metaphor.
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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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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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The course of a lifetime runs/over and over again.
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Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.
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I met my old lover on the street last night, she seemed glad to see me.
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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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