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“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

#Life #Heart #Blow
“It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.”
-- Paul Simon

#Simple #Difficult
“Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.”
-- Paul Simon

#Wisdom #Dope #Forever
“I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.”
-- Paul Simon

#Mother #Children #Eggs
“These are the days of miracle and wonder.”
-- Paul Simon

#Miracle #Wonder
“And so you see I have come to doubt -All that I once held as true ~ I stand alone without beliefs -The only truth I know is you”
-- Paul Simon

#Doubt #Belief #Stand Alone
“I've got nothing to do today but smile.”
-- Paul Simon

#Funny #Life #Happiness
“Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.”
-- Paul Simon

#Faith #Reality #Islands
“When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all.”
-- Paul Simon

#Education #School #Learning
“Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.”
-- Paul Simon

#Writing #Mystery #Songwriting
“You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.”
-- Paul Simon

#Humble #Use #Want
“Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?”
-- Paul Simon

#Squash #Life Is Hard #Hard Life
“The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.”
-- Paul Simon

#Wall #Silence #Subway
“People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.”
-- Paul Simon

#Perfection #People #Magic
“Sail on silver girl, sail on by...your time has come to shine all your dreams are on their way...see how they shine..oh and if you need a friend. I'm sailing right behind......”
-- Paul Simon

#Girl #Dream #Shining
“The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.”
-- Paul Simon

#Hope #Cancer #Heart
“Kodachrome, it gives us those nice bright colors Gives us the greens of summers Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah! I got a Nikon camera, I love to take a photograph So momma, don't take my Kodachrome away...”
-- Paul Simon

#Summer #Photography #Nice
“If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.”
-- Paul Simon

#Humor #Special #Littles
“Life I love you, all is groovy.”
-- Paul Simon

#Love You #Groovy
“My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It's the only thing I find interesting.”
-- Paul Simon

#Moving #Interesting #Artistic
“A songwriter's supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time”
-- Paul Simon

#Simple #Challenges
“Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.”
-- Paul Simon

#Chance #Improvisation
“Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work.”
-- Paul Simon

#Doe #Good Work
“Who am I to blow against the wind?”
-- Paul Simon

#Blow #Wind
“Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's pleasure, but you don't get wiped out.”
-- Paul Simon

#Song #Writing #Pleasure
“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, like I do in life, just talking to myself and making fun of stuff and laughing at stuff that's serious. And sometimes it's a good idea to put the laughing into the songs. Sometimes it's not. Sometimes it's all right just to be serious. But most of the songs have some kind of joke in them.”
-- Paul Simon

#Sarcastic #Song #Fun
“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 something means when an interesting line pops up. Or I can intuit what an interesting choice might be. And I can try a couple of different choices, and see which one feels right, and then continue the song to see where it goes.”
-- Paul Simon

#Song #Couple #Writing
“I don't feel any pressure from fans. But I'm always in some kind of state of emotional turmoil. I would not describe myself as happy-go-lucky. That's not to say that I'm not happy.”
-- Paul Simon

#Emotional #Pressure #Fans
“There must be 50 ways to leave your lover.”
-- Paul Simon

#Way #Lovers
“I rate each album as better than the last one. That's how I see it.”
-- Paul Simon

#Lasts #Albums #Rate

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