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One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor.

Paul Simon

I don’t know what I’m going to write when I begin to write. It feels like you are walking down a path, but you can’t see around the bend and you don’t know where you are going to go, which is fun.
PAUL SIMON

Beginning Known See Writing Yourself
Then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right, there must be fifty ways to leave your lover.
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Herself Kiss Lover Myself Realize
When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.
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Betrayal Music Myself Record
The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.
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Company Finish Myself Record Stay
It’s actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.
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Difficult Goodness Simplicity
I met my old lover on the street last night, she seemed glad to see me.
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Happiness Lover Myself Old See Street
There is a moment, a chip in time, when leaving home is the lesser crime.
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Crime Leave Moments Time
Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.
PAUL SIMON

Knife Life Music Myself Purity Sorrow
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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Emotional Feeling Listening Myself Reveal Right Sentimental
The course of a lifetime runs/over and over again.
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Course Life Run Time
Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?
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Hard Time Life Myself Soft
Who am I to blow against the wind?
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Blow Myself Wind
The abstract music is just more interesting because it doesn’t really have anything to say, but if it is good, it creates thoughts and feelings, and I enjoy that. For me, once the music creates those thoughts and feelings, I begin to write a song about it.
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Abstract Beginning Creation Interesting Music Song Writing
There are two sorts of people in the world: Those who listen and those who are thinking about what they are going to say next.
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People Silence Talk Thinking
I have my books and my poetry to protect me.
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Book Myself Poetry Protection
I don’t consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I’m growing.
PAUL SIMON

Growth Hope Myself Talent

One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor.

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