And you read your emily dickinson, And I my robert frost. And we note our place with bookmarkers That measure what we’ve lost.
PAUL SIMONThe record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won’t do is change the essence of my work.
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Breakdowns come, and breakdowns go.
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I feel I should try to reveal. When you hit it right, you produce an emotional response in the listener that can be cathartic. When you’re wrong, you’re soppy, sentimental.
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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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I have my books and my poetry to protect me.
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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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All God requires from us is to enjoy life and love. That’s the whole point.
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I like them all. They’re all pictures of me when I wrote them. I have no favorite songs.
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Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.
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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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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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We’ve survived by believing our life is going to get better.
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A songwriter’s supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time.
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The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.
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These are the days of miracle and wonder.
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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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Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard.
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When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it’s a wonder I can think at all.
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The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.
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It was easier than explaining DiMaggio’s use as a metaphor.
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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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You know, life is what you make of it- so beautiful or so what.
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Maybe I think too much for my own good.
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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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No one dare disturb the sound of silence.
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Anthony Heilbut has been a guide and a mentor to me. I know of no one who has the love and depth of knowledge of this extraordinary author.
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