Paul Simon

Take me. I'm an ordinary player in the key of C. And my will was broken by my pride and my vanity.…

— Paul Simon

The problem is all inside your head, she said to me The answer is easy if you take it logically I'd like…

— Paul Simon

People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the…

— 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.'

— Paul Simon

Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and…

— Paul Simon

We had many more points of agreement than we had points of difference, but we did differ, and the bigger we got,…

— Paul Simon

To get the stuff out of you, especially if what you're dealing with is yourself, requires you to open up and touch…

— Paul Simon

In the clearing stands the boxer, and a fighter by his trade. And he carries a reminder of every glove that laid…

— Paul Simon

They've got a wall in China, it's a thousand miles long. To keep out the foreigners, they made it strong. And I've…

— Paul Simon

My voice is my improvisational instrument, the melody instrument. The guitar is harmonic structure. I'm not a good enough guitarist to improvise…

— Paul Simon

Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody…

— Paul Simon

Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break…

— Paul Simon

It's very helpful to start with something that's true. If you start with something that's false, you're always covering your tracks. Something…

— Paul Simon

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