People talking without speaking, People listening without hearing, Sounds of Silence.
PAUL SIMONMaybe 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.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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How can you live in the Northeast?
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It’s actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.
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I don’t consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I’m growing.
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I don’t know what I’m going to write when I begin to write. It feels like you are walking down a path, but you can’t see around the bend and you don’t know where you are going to go, which is fun.
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I’ve got a reason to believe we all be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee.
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There’s something about the sound of a train that’s very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.
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In the clearing stands the boxer, and a fighter by his trade. And he carries a reminder of every glove that laid him down, or cut him till he cried out in his anger and his shame “I am leaving! I am leaving” but the fighter still remains.
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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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You know, life is what you make of it- so beautiful or so what.
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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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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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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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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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Music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.
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Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.
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