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Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.

Paul Simon

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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Feeling Herself Lose Love Window
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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Agreement Difference Oneself Point Way
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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Home Myself Winter
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
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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Learning Myself Thinking Wonder
All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
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Himself Lying Man Regard
We’re living in a certain time, and we’re aware of it. And that’s part of what we’re aware of, along with our own personal aches and pains.
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Aware Live Myself Pain Personal Time
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
I don’t think [Dylan and the Beatles] influenced me a lot. I think it was inevitable; they were so powerful that you couldn’t really escape the influence.
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Escape Influence Powerful Thinking
You want to be a writer, don’t know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.
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Humble Known Pen Place Quiet Writing Yourself
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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Existence Heart Myself
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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Feeling Learning Myself Old People Question
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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Beginning Known See Writing Yourself
Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.
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Death Follow Forever Growth Music Right Yourself
I regret the ending of our friendship and hope one day before we die, we’ll make peace with each other . . . No rush.
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Death Each Other Friendship Hope Peace Regret
Nor is it strange That after changes upon changes, we are more or less the same.
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Change Same Strange
Somewhere in a burst of glory / Sound becomes a song.
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Burst Glory Song Sound
Take two bodies and you twirl them into one, their hearts and their bones, and they won’t come undone.
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Body Bone Heart
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
Music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.
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Avenue Communication Music
We work our jobs, collect our pay, believe were gliding down the highway, when in fact we’re slip sliding away.
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Fact Job Ourselves Slide Work
Serious numbers will speak to us always.
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Myself Serious Talk
There’s something about the sound of a train that’s very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.
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Hope Nostalgia Romantic Sound Training
People talking without speaking, People listening without hearing, Sounds of Silence.
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Listening People Silence Sound Talk
People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.
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Kind Magic Music People Perfection
After all those years of automatic success, you don’t get nervous any more. It’s really necessary to be nervous and be a little bit frightened. It pumps the adrenalin into you and you really get down there and try.
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Automatic Necessary Nervous Scare Try Yourself
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.
PAUL SIMON

Goodness Majority Myself Satisfaction Thinking

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