It’s very helpful to start with something that’s true. If you start with something that’s false, you’re always covering your tracks. Something simple and true, that has a lot of possibilities, is a nice way to begin.
PAUL SIMONAnd I must be what I must be and face tomorrow.
More Paul Simon Quotes
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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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Music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.
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Was a sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. Not a negative word was heard.
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Far above the golden clouds, the darkness vibrates. The earth is blue. And everything about it is a love song. Everything about it.
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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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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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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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I’ve got a reason to believe we all be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee.
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Nor is it strange That after changes upon changes, we are more or less the same.
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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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The dialogue between what’s going on in the world and what’s going on internally seems to be a natural thing – well, it’s natural to me, anyway, to have these thoughts.
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Maybe 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.
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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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Take two bodies and you twirl them into one, their hearts and their bones, and they won’t come undone.
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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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