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
People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
I'm not in it for the money. I like music. I love to write music. I can't imagine myself not playing or… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
When we came into the studio I became more and more me, making the tracks and choosing the musicians, partly because a… — 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
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
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
Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die. — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears. — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
...music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists. — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
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 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
Although I was able to study music with teachers, I never studied lyric writing. I read poetry, and I read other lyricists.… — 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
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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