Paul Simon Quotes - Page 7

...everything looks worse in black and white.

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

Every generation throws a hero up the pop charts.

I stepped outside to smoke a J and when I came back to the room, everybody just seemed to move.

How much can you do with two voices? You can sing thirds or you can sing fifths or you can do a background harmony.

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?

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.

Medicine is magical and magical is art, the boy in the bubble, and the baby with the baboon heart.

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.

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

The public hungers to see talented young people kill themselves.

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

I've got a reason to believe we all be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee.

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

Someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire.

Hide it in a hiding place where no one ever goes Put it in your pantry with your cupcakes

Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away.

I am just a poor boy, though my story's seldom told, and I have squandered my resistance, for a pocket full of mumbles, such are promises. All lies in jest, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest...la-la-la-la-la-la-la-lala-la-la-la-la...

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

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.

Elvis was the reason I picked up the guitar.

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

I didn't get how big it was until I went home, turned on the television and saw it on all the news, and later that night on the front pages of all the newspapers. Then I got it.

To get the stuff out of you, especially if what you're dealing with is yourself, requires you to open up and touch tender spots. You have to be anesthetized a little bit.

A phenomenon occurs but because you're in the middle of it, you just think it's your life-until it's over. And then you look back and say, What an unusual thing happened to me in the '60s.