I don't think [Dylan and the Beatles] influenced me a lot. I think it was inevitable; they were so powerful that you… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
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… — 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
She said a good day ain't got no rain She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed And… — 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
There are two sorts of people in the world: Those who listen and those who are thinking about what they are going… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
Kodachrome, it gives us those nice bright colors Gives us the greens of summers Makes you think all the world's a sunny… — 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
When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all. — 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
Every time the industry gets powerful, and corporate thinking dominates what the music is, then the music really pales. — 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