A songwriter’s supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time.
PAUL SIMONBreakdowns come, and breakdowns go.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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Serious numbers will speak to us always.
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Maybe I think too much for my own good.
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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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I like them all. They’re all pictures of me when I wrote them. I have no favorite songs.
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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.
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How can you live in the Northeast?
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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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The trick is, as I know it, is to care like hell and not give a damn at the same time.
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Nor is it strange That after changes upon changes, we are more or less the same.
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It’s actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.
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I’m laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone, Going home, where the new york city winters aren’t bleedin’ me.
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Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard.
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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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You want to be a writer, don’t know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.
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Someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire.
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