We work our jobs, collect our pay, believe were gliding down the highway, when in fact we’re slip sliding away.
PAUL SIMONI don’t very often think I’ve done a good job. I don’t like the majority of what I do. I shouldn’t say I don’t like it, but I’m not satisfied with almost everything that I do.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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Life I love you, all is groovy.
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I have my books and my poetry to protect me.
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How can you live in the Northeast?
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It’s very helpful to start with something that’s true. If you start with something that’s false, you’re always covering your tracks. Something simple and true, that has a lot of possibilities, is a nice way to begin.
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After all those years of automatic success, you don’t get nervous any more. It’s really necessary to be nervous and be a little bit frightened. It pumps the adrenalin into you and you really get down there and try.
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Artie is a singer, and I’m a writer and player and a singer. We didn’t work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.
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The course of a lifetime runs/over and over again.
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These are the days of miracle and wonder.
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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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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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Time, time, time, see what’s become of me, While I looked around, For my possibilities; I was so hard to please
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The phrasing didn’t work as well.
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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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Was a sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. Not a negative word was heard.
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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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