Paul Simon Quotes - Page 3

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• I regret the ending of our friendship and hope one day before we die, we'll make peace with each other . . . No rush.

  Paul Simon

  Regret, One Day, Making Peace

  "Rock Hall of Fame enrolls new class" by Jamie Allen, www.cnn.com. March 20, 2001.

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• If you'll be my body guard, I can be your long lost pal.

  Paul Simon

  Friendship, Long, Pals

  Song: You Can Call Me Al

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• Then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right, there must be fifty ways to leave your lover.

  Paul Simon

  Rejection, Way, Fifty

  Song: 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover

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• Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.

  Paul Simon

  Song, Player, Creative

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• Sail on silver girl
  Sail on by
  Your time has come to shine
  All your dreams are on their way
  See how they shine
  Oh, if you need a friend
  I'm sailing right behind.

  Paul Simon

  Girl, Dream, Shining

  "Song: 'Bridge Over Troubled Water'". 1970.

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• A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around. He doesn't speak the language. He holds no currency. He is a foreign man. He is surrounded by the sound, sound of cattle in the marketplace, scatterlings and orphanages. He looks around, around he sees angels in the architecture spinning in infinity and he says, "Amen" and "Hallelujah!

  Paul Simon

  Angel, Men, Sound

  Paul Simon (2011). “Lyrics 1964-2011”, p.191, Simon and Schuster

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• No one dare disturb the sound of silence...

  Paul Simon

  Silence, Listening, Sound

  "Song: The Sounds of Silence (Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.)". October 1964.

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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.

  Paul Simon

  Mentor, Depth, Guides

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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.

  Paul Simon

  Summer, Photography, Nice

  Paul Simon (2011). “Lyrics 1964-2011”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• I met my old lover on the street last night. She seemed so glad to see me, I just smiled. Then we talked about some old times and we drank ourselves some beers, still crazy after all these years.

  Paul Simon

  Crazy, Beer, Night

  "Still Crazy After All These Years". Song by Paul Simon, March 26, 1976.

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• And you read your emily dickinson, And I my robert frost. And we note our place with bookmarkers That measure what weve lost.

  Paul Simon

  Frost, Lost, Notes

  Song: The Dangling Conversation

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• Maybe I think too much for my own good.

  Paul Simon

  Thinking, Too Much, My Own

  Song: Think Too Much

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• 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.

  Paul Simon

  Powerful, Thinking, Influence

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• I'm always going forward toward something, and that something is usually an album, because I like to record. I probably like to record more than I like to write.

  Paul Simon

  Writing, Albums, Records

  Interview with Steven Hyden, music.avclub.com. March 28, 2011.

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• Philip Larkin didn't write for several years before his life ended. And when he was asked why he didn't write, he said the muse deserted him. And when I read that, it really had a profound effect upon me, sort of scared me. So that's why I think I have no right to assume that some thought is going to come... But I think, in my imagination, if it is it, there will probably be something else I'm interested in.

  Paul Simon

  Writing, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Was a sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. Not a negative word was heard.

  Paul Simon

  Inspirational, Clouds, Negative Words

  Paul Simon (2012). “Lyrics 1964 - 2011”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Paul Simon

  Life, Flower, Love You

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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.

  Paul Simon

  World, Natural, Dialogue

  Source: www.wbur.org

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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.

  Paul Simon

  Emotional, Trying, Sentimental

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• Take two bodies and you twirl them into one, their hearts and their bones, and they won't come undone.

  Paul Simon

  Heart, Two, Body

  Song: Hearts And Bones

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• I met my old lover on the street last night, she seemed glad to see me.

  Paul Simon

  Night, Lasts, Lovers

  Song: Still Crazy After All These Years

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• Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do.

  Paul Simon

  Break Up, People, Track

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• The more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh.

  Paul Simon

  Thinking, Laughing

  Paul Simon (2012). “Lyrics 1964 - 2011”, p.224, Simon and Schuster

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• I just said, you know, this is a great track but this lyric, I don't believe it. It sounds like I'm trying to say something, instead of it naturally coming out of me, like I was saying something that I already knew. Anyway, I can't remember what it was. And either I threw it all out or I threw 90 percent of it out, and kept a line or two. That's happened a couple of times to me. Not too often, but a couple of times. Very aggravating when it does happen.

  Paul Simon

  Couple, Believe, Writing

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• I have my books and my poetry to protect me

  Paul Simon

  Book, Protect

  Song: I Am a Rock, Album: The Paul Simon Songbook

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