People talking without speaking, People listening without hearing, Sounds of Silence.
PAUL SIMONI like them all. They’re all pictures of me when I wrote them. I have no favorite songs.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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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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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.
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I’m always going forward toward something, and that something is usually an album, because I like to record. I probably like to record more than I like to write.
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I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I’m through.
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Serious numbers will speak to us always.
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Music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.
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The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.
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All I’ve got to do today is smile.
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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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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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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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I’ve got nothing to do today but smile.
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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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Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard.
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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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