A songwriter's supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
It was the year of the Beatles, it was the year of the Stones, it was 1964. — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
Far above the golden clouds, the darkness vibrates. The earth is blue. And everything about it is a love song. Everything about… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears. — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
Every time the industry gets powerful, and corporate thinking dominates what the music is, then the music really pales. — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life. — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
By the time I was 12 or 13, I felt that I was special, because I could play the guitar and write songs. — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
...music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists. — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
I like them all. They're all pictures of me when I wrote them. I have no favorite songs. — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
When I began making my own albums, the songs became funkier. They were more about the streets. — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
Just slip out the back, Jack, make a new plan, Stan, you don't need to be coy, Roy, just get yourself free.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
Cecilia was made in a living room on a Sony. It was like a little piece of magical fluff, bur it works.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
There are lots of really good guitarists, but they play with the same pedals that everybody else does. Everybody buys the same… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
I think Bridge Over Troubled Water was a very good song. Artie sang it beautifully. The Boxer was a really nice record.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
I like working with sound; sound and rhythm. I like the abstract more than "What does that mean?" Nobody ever says to… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
The abstract music is just more interesting because it doesn't really have anything to say, but if it is good, it creates… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
In the clearing stands the boxer, and a fighter by his trade. And he carries a reminder of every glove that laid… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
I really don't know what exactly all the songs mean. Sometimes other people have meanings and when I hear them I think,… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
Most of the time, the songs have jokes in them, little sarcastic things, or purposely kitsch or something. So that's going along… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
I just said, you know, this is a great track but this lyric, I don't believe it. It sounds like I'm trying… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
I don't really know why an idea comes to me. But all of a sudden, an idea comes and from experience I… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
I see a correlation between short stories and songs, because of their length and for what they're meant to evoke. Combine certain… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
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.… — Paul Simon Copy Share
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… — Paul Simon Copy Share
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… — Paul Simon Copy Share
Medicine is magical and magical is art, the boy in the bubble, and the baby with the baboon heart. — Paul Simon Copy Share
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 Copy Share
...what threatens us today in the world of computers and other invasions of privacy is not a national ID card but a number of… — Paul Simon Copy Share
I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is… — Paul Simon Copy Share
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… — Paul Simon Copy Share
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… — Paul Simon Copy Share
The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence. — Paul Simon Copy Share
I'm not in it for the money. I like music. I love to write music. I can't imagine myself not playing or singing or… — Paul Simon Copy Share
A fundamental requirement, overriding any other for this job, is an understanding of deafness-what it is and how it affects the educational experience. — Paul Simon Copy Share
