Paul Simon Quotes - Page 4

It was the year of the Beatles, it was the year of the Stones, it was 1964.

I like them all. They're all pictures of me when I wrote them. I have no favorite songs.

Some people never say the words ‘I love you’, for like a child they’re longing to be told.

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

Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.

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, that has a lot of possibilities, is a nice way to begin.

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

She said a good day ain't got no rain She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed And I think of things that might have been

Who am I to blow against the wind?

I'm laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone, Going home, where the new york city winters aren't bleedin' me.

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 that. And when you get into a rhyme group like 'not,' you got a lot of rhymes, you got a lot of choices. The more you do it, the luckier you get.

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.

She said, why don't we both just sleep on it tonight, And I believe, in the morning you'll begin to see the light. And then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right, There must be fifty ways to leave your lover, fifty ways to leave your lover.

All I've got to do today is smile.

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

I question what emotion Manilow touches. People are entertained by him. But are they emotionally moved? I don't believe anything that Barry Manilow sings.

And a rock feels no pain; And an island never cries.

The abstract music is just more interesting because it doesn't really have anything to say, but if it is good, it creates thoughts and feelings, and I enjoy that. For me, once the music creates those thoughts and feelings, I begin to write a song about it.

I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don't get sentimental. I think we're all afraid to reveal our hearts. It's not at all in fashion.

A lot of talent is a gift, but a lot is also luck. I'm very aware of that. I was born in the right place at the right time. I am also blessed because I've never been a sex symbol. I'm spared the embarrassment of acting young.

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.

The only time that love is an easy game is when two other people are playing it.

I think my hight had the most significant single effect on my existence, aside from my brain. In fact, it's part of an inferior-superior syndrome. I think I have an inferior brain and an inferior stature, if you really want to get brutal about it.

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.

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