Paul Simon Quotes

• I always get very calm with baseball.

  Paul Simon

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• I rate each album as better than the last one. That’s how I see it.

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• My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It’s the only thing I find interesting.

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• Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work.

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• Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough.

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• I don’t believe what the papers are saying They’re just out to capture my dime, Exaggerating this, exaggerating that.

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• I don’t consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I’m growing.

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• 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.

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• I don’t think that Simon and Garfunkel as a live act compares to Simon and Garfunkel as a studio act.

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• I lived in an attached house. My father used to drive into the wrong driveway all the time. He’d say, Damn it, how do you tell one of these houses from another?

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• I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.

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• I think Bridge Over Troubled Water was a very good song. Artie sang it beautifully. The Boxer was a really nice record. But I don’t think I’ve written any great songs.

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• 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.

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• Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.

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• It’s a big error to think that because you like somebody’s work, you’re going to like him.

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• 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

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• One of the things that upset me was some of the criticism leveled at Simon and Garfunkel. I always took exception to it, but actually I agree with a lot of it.

  Paul Simon

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• We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry.

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• We had many more points of agreement than we had points of difference, but we did differ, and the bigger we got, the more insistent we got that each one of us should have his way.

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• We were always able to sing and blend well together; that’s our gift. But aside from that, we’re really two different guys.

  Paul Simon

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Paul Simon (61)

Birth:	13th October, 1941
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Lyricist, Musician, Producer

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