Paul Simon Quotes
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I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.
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It's pointless to be critical of your stuff once it's done. I don't spend a lot of time agonising over it. It's of no importance once it's finished.
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Artie travels all the time. The rehearsals were just miserable. Artie and I fought all the time. He didn't want to do the show with my band; he just wanted me on acoustic guitar.
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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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Blessed are the sat upon, spat upon, ratted on.
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Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?
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The only time that love is an easy game is when two other people are playing it.
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When I first heard Elvis perform "Bridge Over Trouble Water" it was unbelivable,and I thought to myself, how the hell can I compete with that?
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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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A songwriter's supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time
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The phrasing didn't work as well.
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There must be 50 ways to leave your lover.
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Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.
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I rate each album as better than the last one. That's how I see it.
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All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
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These are the days of miracle and wonder.
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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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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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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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I like working with sound; sound and rhythm. I like the abstract more than "What does that mean?" Nobody ever says to you, "Why did you use a harmonium?" Or "What is that ringing sound that occurs here?" The questions are always "What does that song mean?" or "What were you trying to say here?"
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Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away.
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I stepped outside to smoke a J and when I came back to the room, everybody just seemed to move.
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Although I was able to study music with teachers, I never studied lyric writing. I read poetry, and I read other lyricists. But they were never writing in the style or the form that I was interested in.
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I don't think that Simon and Garfunkel as a live act compares to Simon and Garfunkel as a studio act.
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Kodachrome, it gives us those nice bright colors Gives us the greens of summers Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah! I got a Nikon camera, I love to take a photograph So momma, don't take my Kodachrome away.
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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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...everything looks worse in black and white.
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My voice is my improvisational instrument, the melody instrument. The guitar is harmonic structure. I'm not a good enough guitarist to improvise on it.
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These are the days of lasers in the jungle, staccato signals of constant information.
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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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