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I have my books and my poetry to protect me.

Paul Simon

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.
PAUL SIMON

Automatic Necessary Nervous Scare Try Yourself
Music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.
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Avenue Communication Music
I have my books and my poetry to protect me.
PAUL SIMON

Book Myself Poetry Protection
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
We had many more points of agreement than we had points of difference, but we did differ, and the bigger we got, the more insistent we got that each one of us should have his way.
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Agreement Difference Oneself Point Way
People ask how I feel about getting old. I tell them I have the same question. I’m learning as I go.
PAUL SIMON

Feeling Learning Myself Old People Question
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
When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.
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Betrayal Music Myself Record
I don’t think [Dylan and the Beatles] influenced me a lot. I think it was inevitable; they were so powerful that you couldn’t really escape the influence.
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Escape Influence Powerful Thinking
Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard.
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End Grave Result
I met my old lover on the street last night, she seemed glad to see me.
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Happiness Lover Myself Old See Street
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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Eat Food Inspiration Myself
Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.
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Chance Goodness Improvement Leave
I met my old lover on the street last night. She seemed so glad to see me, I just smiled. Then we talked about some old times and we drank ourselves some beers, still crazy after all these years.
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Crazy Happiness Lover Old Ourselves Time
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
My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It’s the only thing I find interesting.
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Artistic Change Finding Interesting Life Myself

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