I 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.
PAUL SIMONWe’re living in a certain time, and we’re aware of it. And that’s part of what we’re aware of, along with our own personal aches and pains.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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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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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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In the clearing stands the boxer, and a fighter by his trade. And he carries a reminder of every glove that laid him down, or cut him till he cried out in his anger and his shame “I am leaving! I am leaving” but the fighter still remains.
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If you’ll be my body guard, I can be your long lost pal.
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Then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right, there must be fifty ways to leave your lover.
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Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.
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So I’ll continue to continue to pretend my life will never end, and flowers never bend with the rainfall.
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Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.
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I’m laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone, Going home, where the new york city winters aren’t bleedin’ me.
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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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The phrasing didn’t work as well.
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Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.
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Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard.
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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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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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