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Maybe I think too much for my own good.

Paul Simon

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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Emotional Feeling Listening Myself Reveal Right Sentimental
Music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.
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Avenue Communication Music
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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Creation Humor Lose Serious Time Yourself
Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.
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Knife Life Music Myself Purity Sorrow
A songwriter’s supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time.
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Challenge Simplicity Supreme Time
And I must be what I must be and face tomorrow.
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Brave Face Myself
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
One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor.
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Floor Man Oneself
If you’ll be my body guard, I can be your long lost pal.
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Body Friendship Guard Myself
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
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.
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Abstract Beginning Creation Interesting Music Song Writing
I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I’m through.
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Angry Heart Jealous Myself Soul
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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Author Guide Knowledge Mentor Myself
Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.
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Evidence Faith Hope Line Sun
So I’ll continue to continue to pretend my life will never end, and flowers never bend with the rainfall.
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End Flower Life Myself Pretend Rain
Who am I to blow against the wind?
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Blow Myself Wind

Maybe I think too much for my own good.

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