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
Instead of thinking in terms of chords, I think of voice-leading; that is, melody line and bass line, and where the bass… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
I won't disturb the slumber of feelings that have died. If I never loved I never would have cried...I am a rock. — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think my hight had the most significant single effect on my existence, aside from my brain. In fact, it's part of… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
Philip Larkin didn't write for several years before his life ended. And when he was asked why he didn't write, he said… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Medicine is magical and magical is art, the boy in the bubble, and the baby with the baboon heart. — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
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 Image
...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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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