All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
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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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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Somewhere in a burst of glory / Sound becomes a song.
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Just slip out the back, Jack, make a new plan, Stan, you don’t need to be coy, Roy, just get yourself free. Hop on the bus, Gus, you don’t need to discuss much, just drop off the key, Lee, and get yourself free.
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The course of a lifetime runs/over and over again.
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Given all the facts that I’m young and I’m in good health and I’m famous – that I have talent, I have money – given all these facts, I want to know why I’m so unhappy.
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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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It’s actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.
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Take me. I’m an ordinary player in the key of C. And my will was broken by my pride and my vanity. Who’s gonna love you when you’re looks are gone? God will. Like he waters the flowers on your window sill.
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You know, life is what you make of it- so beautiful or so what.
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I met my old lover on the street last night, she seemed glad to see me.
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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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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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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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Then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right, there must be fifty ways to leave your lover.
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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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