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I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don’t get sentimental. I think we’re all afraid to reveal our hearts. It’s not at all in fashion.

Paul Simon

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.
PAUL SIMON

Abstract Beginning Creation Interesting Music Song Writing
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
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
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
And she said ‘Losing love is like a window in your heart, Everybody sees you’re blown apart, Everybody feels the wind blow.’
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Feeling Herself Lose Love Window
Breakdowns come, and breakdowns go.
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Breakdown Heart Broken
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
There are two sorts of people in the world: Those who listen and those who are thinking about what they are going to say next.
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People Silence Talk Thinking
All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
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Himself Lying Man Regard
You want to be a writer, don’t know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.
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Humble Known Pen Place Quiet Writing Yourself
One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor.
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Floor Man Oneself
Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.
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Mystery Simplicity
It’s actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.
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Difficult Goodness Simplicity
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
People ask how I feel about getting old. I tell them I have the same question. I’m learning as I go.
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Feeling Learning Myself Old People Question

I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don’t get sentimental. I think we’re all afraid to reveal our hearts. It’s not at all in fashion.

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I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don’t get sentimental. I think we’re all afraid to reveal our hearts. It’s not at all in fashion.

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