Paul Simon Quotes

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I was having dinner with Paul Muldoon, the poet, and I said, I had this title I don't know whether I want to keep it, 'Wristband'. He said, 'It's a good title. You could go a lot of places with that title, you should keep it.'

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Far above the golden clouds, the darkness vibrates.
The earth is blue.
And everything about it is a love song. Everything about it.

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Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.

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The mother and child reunion is only a motion away.

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It's an act of courage to let go. I am going to see what happens if I let go. Then I'm going to see, who am I? Or am I just this person that was defined by what I did? And if that's gone, if you have to make up yourself, who are you?

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Two times two is twenty-two, four times four is forty-four. When numbers get serious, they leave a mark on your door.

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Couple in the next room bound to win a prize, they've been going at it all night long.

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I'm going to Graceland, for reasons I cannot explain. There's some part of me wants to see Graceland. And I may be advised to defend every love, every ending, or maybe there's no obligations now. Maybe I've a reason to believe we all will be received in Graceland.

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I would not be convicted by a jury of my peers, still crazy after all these years.

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Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.

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Take two bodies and you twirl them into one, their hearts and their bones, and they won't come undone.

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The leaves that are green turn to brown. And they wither with the wind. And they crumble in your hand.

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I met my old lover on the street last night, she seemed glad to see me.

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So I'll continue to continue to pretend my life will never end, and flowers never bend with the rainfall.

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I get the news I need on the weather report And I have nothing to do today but smile

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I'm empty and aching and I don't know why.
Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike.
They've all come to look for America.

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She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy
I said 'Be careful his bowtie is really a camera'

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I have my books And my poetry to protect me; I am shielded in my armor, Hiding in my room, safe within my womb. I touch no one and no one touches me. I am a rock, I am an island.

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It's outrageous to line your pockets off the misery of the poor; It's outrageous, the crimes some human beings must endure...

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Hello darkness my old friend I've come to talk with you again.

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From out of nowhere, I said, wristband, it's just a metaphor for, 'You can't get in. You don't have what's required.' And that's what's going on. That battle is being fought right now, the haves and have-nots.

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And you read your emily dickinson, And I my robert frost. And we note our place with bookmarkers That measure what weve lost.

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Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.

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When I look back on all the crap I learned in high school It's a wonder I can think at all.

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Just slip out the back, Jack, make a new plan, Stan, you don't need to be coy, Roy, just get yourself free. Hop on the bus, Gus, you don't need to discuss much, just drop off the key, Lee, and get yourself free.

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Well its great to do a neighborhood concert. I hope everyone can hear us. I hope that the sound is good. I hope we are blasting Central Park West and Fifth avenue pretty much away. I just want to thank the police department and the fire department and the parks commissioner, and Ed Koch [Audience boos] — and particularly, you know, people that never get recognized for doing good things for the city, a group of people that have donated half of the proceeds that they're making tonight — the guys who are selling loose joints are giving the city half of their income tonight.

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The Mississippi Delta was shining
like a National guitar.

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The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.

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Medicine is magical and magical is art
The Boy in the Bubble
And the baby with the baboon heart
And I believe
These are the days of lasers in the jungle
Lasers in the jungle somewhere
Staccato signals of constant information
A loose affiliation of millionaires.

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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

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