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.
PAUL SIMONI met my old lover on the street last night, she seemed glad to see me.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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Losing love is like a window in your heart.
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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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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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One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor.
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I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It’s chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.
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People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.
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Music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.
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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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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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The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.
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All I’ve got to do today is smile.
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The more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh.
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Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.
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Just slip out the back, Jack, make a new plan, Stan, you don’t need to be coy, Roy, just get yourself free. Hop on the bus, Gus, you don’t need to discuss much, just drop off the key, Lee, and get yourself free.
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Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?
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