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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.

Paul Simon

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
She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy I said ‘Be careful his bowtie is really a camera’
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Camera Care Man Myself
Anthony Heilbut has been a guide and a mentor to me. I know of no one who has the love and depth of knowledge of this extraordinary author.
PAUL SIMON

Author Guide Knowledge Mentor Myself
By the time I was 12 or 13, I felt that I was special, because I could play the guitar and write songs.
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Feeling Guitar Play Song Time Writing
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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Learning Myself Thinking Wonder
Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do.
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Expectation History Live People Record Success Yourself
How much can you do with two voices? You can sing thirds or you can sing fifths or you can do a background harmony.
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Harmony Sing Voice Yourself
Life I love you, all is groovy.
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I Love You Life Myself
Far above the golden clouds, the darkness vibrates. The earth is blue. And everything about it is a love song. Everything about it.
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Cloud Darkness Earth Gold Love Song Vibration
Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.
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Believe Brick Myself Natural Power Wall
Serious numbers will speak to us always.
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Myself Serious Talk
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
Breakdowns come, and breakdowns go.
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Breakdown Heart Broken
Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.
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Chance Goodness Improvement Leave
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
I regret the ending of our friendship and hope one day before we die, we’ll make peace with each other . . . No rush.
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Death Each Other Friendship Hope Peace Regret
Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.
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Knife Life Music Myself Purity Sorrow
I like them all. They’re all pictures of me when I wrote them. I have no favorite songs.
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Myself Photograph Song Writing
How can you live in the Northeast?
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Live Place
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
I stepped outside to smoke a J and when I came back to the room, everybody just seemed to move.
PAUL SIMON

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
I’m always going forward toward something, and that something is usually an album, because I like to record. I probably like to record more than I like to write.
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Album Myself Record Writing
These are the days of miracle and wonder.
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Days Instagram Captions Miracle Wonder
Losing love is like a window in your heart.
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Heart Broken Lose Love Window
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.
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Creation Humor Lose Serious Time Yourself
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

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