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A lot of talent is a gift, but a lot is also luck. I’m very aware of that. I was born in the right place at the right time. I am also blessed because I’ve never been a sex symbol. I’m spared the embarrassment of acting young.

Paul Simon

If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you’ve created a special little thing, and that’s what I’m looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.
PAUL SIMON

Creation Humor Lose Serious Time Yourself
The degree of customization possible through your Preferences screens is awesome.
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Customization Degree Preference Screen
I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won’t do is change the essence of my work.
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Art Essence Happiness Myself Willing Work
She said a good day ain’t got no rain She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed And I think of things that might have been.
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Bad Day Goodness Myself Rain Thinking
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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Existence Heart Myself
People talking without speaking, People listening without hearing, Sounds of Silence.
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Listening People Silence Sound Talk
And you read your emily dickinson, And I my robert frost. And we note our place with bookmarkers That measure what we’ve lost.
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Lost Measurement Note Place Reading
I don’t feel any pressure from fans. But I’m always in some kind of state of emotional turmoil. I would not describe myself as happy-go-lucky. That’s not to say that I’m not happy.
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Description Fans Feeling Happiness Myself Pressure State
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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Agreement Difference Oneself Point Way
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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Impossible Music Myself Song
My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It’s the only thing I find interesting.
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Artistic Change Finding Interesting Life Myself
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
And I must be what I must be and face tomorrow.
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Brave Face Myself
Take me. I’m an ordinary player in the key of C. And my will was broken by my pride and my vanity. Who’s gonna love you when you’re looks are gone? God will. Like he waters the flowers on your window sill.
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Appearance Break Flower God Ordinary Player Vanity
I stepped outside to smoke a J and when I came back to the room, everybody just seemed to move.
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Move Myself Room Smoke
You know, life is what you make of it- so beautiful or so what.
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Beautiful Life Yourself
So I’ll continue to continue to pretend my life will never end, and flowers never bend with the rainfall.
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End Flower Life Myself Pretend Rain
Maybe I think too much for my own good.
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Goodness Myself Thinking
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
We work our jobs, collect our pay, believe were gliding down the highway, when in fact we’re slip sliding away.
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Fact Job Ourselves Slide Work
Was a sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. Not a negative word was heard.
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Cloud Day Heard Sky Word
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
Breakdowns come, and breakdowns go.
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Breakdown Heart Broken
One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor.
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Floor Man Oneself
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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Silence Sound Word Writing
Losing love is like a window in your heart.
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Heart Broken Lose Love Window
There’s something about the sound of a train that’s very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.
PAUL SIMON

Hope Nostalgia Romantic Sound Training

A lot of talent is a gift, but a lot is also luck. I’m very aware of that. I was born in the right place at the right time. I am also blessed because I’ve never been a sex symbol. I’m spared the embarrassment of acting young.

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A lot of talent is a gift, but a lot is also luck. I’m very aware of that. I was born in the right place at the right time. I am also blessed because I’ve never been a sex symbol. I’m spared the embarrassment of acting young.

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