Paul Simon Quotes - Page 7

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• How much can you do with two voices? You can sing thirds or you can sing fifths or you can do a background harmony.

  Paul Simon

  Two, Voice, Harmony

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• Every generation throws a hero up the pop charts.

  Paul Simon

  Hero, Generations, Pops

  Song: The Boy in the Bubble

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• She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy
  I said 'Be careful his bowtie is really a camera'

  Paul Simon

  Photography, Men, Spy

  "America," from Simon and Garfunkel's 1968 album Bookends.

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• ...everything looks worse in black and white.

  Paul Simon

  Photography, Black And White, Looks

  Song: Kodachrome

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• I don't really know why an idea comes to me. But all of a sudden, an idea comes and from experience I can intuit what something means when an interesting line pops up. Or I can intuit what an interesting choice might be. And I can try a couple of different choices, and see which one feels right, and then continue the song to see where it goes.

  Paul Simon

  Song, Couple, Writing

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• I stepped outside to smoke a J and when I came back to the room, everybody just seemed to move.

  Paul Simon

  Moving, Alcohol, Drug

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• Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.

  Paul Simon

  Wall, Believe, Bricks

  Song: Gumboots, Album: Graceland

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• I've got a reason to believe we all be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee.

  Paul Simon

  Believe, Memphis, Tennessee

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• I am just a poor boy, though my story's seldom told, and I have squandered my resistance, for a pocket full of mumbles, such are promises. All lies in jest, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest...la-la-la-la-la-la-la-lala-la-la-la-la...

  Paul Simon

  Lying, Boys, Men

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• I have my books And my poetry to protect me; I am shielded in my armor, Hiding in my room, safe within my womb. I touch no one and no one touches me. I am a rock, I am an island.

  Paul Simon

  Book, Islands, Rocks

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

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• Medicine is magical and magical is art, the boy in the bubble, and the baby with the baboon heart.

  Paul Simon

  Baby, Art, Animal

  Paul Simon (2012). “Lyrics 1964 - 2011”, p.281, Simon and Schuster

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• Couple in the next room bound to win a prize, they've been going at it all night long.

  Paul Simon

  Couple, Night, Winning

  Song: Lincoln Duncan, Album: Paul Simon

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• Someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire.

  Paul Simon

  Fire, Rooms, Life Is

  Paul Simon (2012). “Lyrics 1964 - 2011”, p.304, Simon and Schuster

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• The public hungers to see talented young people kill themselves.

  Paul Simon

  People, Addiction, Hunger

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I get the news I need on the weather report And I have nothing to do today but smile

  Paul Simon

  Weather, Needs, News

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• Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away.

  Paul Simon

  Mama, Controversy

  Song: Kodachrome

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• I rate each album as better than the last one. That's how I see it.

  Paul Simon

  Albums, Lasts, Rate

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• Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's pleasure, but you don't get wiped out.

  Paul Simon

  Song, Writing, Pleasure

  Interview with Tony Schwartz, www.uh.cz.

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• To get the stuff out of you, especially if what you're dealing with is yourself, requires you to open up and touch tender spots. You have to be anesthetized a little bit.

  Paul Simon

  Littles, Stuff, Spots

  "Playboy Interview Paul Simon". Book by Tony Schwartz, 1984.

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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.

  Paul Simon

  Guitar, Voice, Good Enough

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• Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work.

  Paul Simon

  Doe, Good Work, Can Do

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• I didn't get how big it was until I went home, turned on the television and saw it on all the news, and later that night on the front pages of all the newspapers. Then I got it.

  Paul Simon

  Home, Night, News

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• Two times two is twenty-two, four times four is forty-four. When numbers get serious, they leave a mark on your door.

  Paul Simon

  Doors, Two, Numbers

  Song: When Numbers Get Serious, Album: Hearts and Bones

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• A phenomenon occurs but because you're in the middle of it, you just think it's your life-until it's over. And then you look back and say, What an unusual thing happened to me in the '60s.

  Paul Simon

  Thinking, Unusual Things, Looks

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• Elvis was the reason I picked up the guitar.

  Paul Simon

  Guitar, Reason

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