Paul Simon Quotes

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• I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I'm through.
• When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all.
• Who's gonna love you when your looks are gone?
• ...what threatens us today in the world of computers and other invasions of privacy is not a national ID card but a number of other…
• It's outrageous to line your pockets off the misery of the poor; It's outrageous, the crimes some human beings must endure...
• The Wisdom is old, the Koran is old, the Bible is old. Disagreements? Work 'em out.
• Nor is it strange That after changes upon changes, we are more or less the same
• 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 simple and true,…
• Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.
• I don't really know why an idea comes to me. But all of a sudden, an idea comes and from experience I can intuit what…
• Most of the time, the songs have jokes in them, little sarcastic things, or purposely kitsch or something. So that's going along with a story,…
• I really don't know what exactly all the songs mean. Sometimes other people have meanings and when I hear them I think, 'That's really a…
• I don't really like to write at a desk. I like to write when driving in a car. ... Once you're working on it, you're…
• I sort of recognize it, as opposed to shaping it. Oh, that's a good idea, that's a good line. I wonder where I can use…
• I just said, you know, this is a great track but this lyric, I don't believe it. It sounds like I'm trying to say something,…
• The words come. Usually, it's a long time before they come. And then when they start to come, it doesn't take so long for it…
• Most of the time, when I had hits as a soloist - maybe not so much with Simon & Garfunkel - I was surprised they…
• People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.
• I always get very calm with baseball.
• ...everything looks worse in black and white.

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