Paul Simon Quotes - Page 8

It's pointless to be critical of your stuff once it's done. I don't spend a lot of time agonising over it. It's of no importance once it's finished.

The degree of customization possible through your Preferences screens is awesome.

It was easier than explaining DiMaggio's use as a metaphor.

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

When I began making my own albums, the songs became funkier. They were more about the streets.

The course of a lifetime runs/over and over again

Someone told me it's all happening at the zoo.

Every time the industry gets powerful, and corporate thinking dominates what the music is, then the music really pales.

I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.

I don't like fashion. It's very heartless.

Although I was able to study music with teachers, I never studied lyric writing. I read poetry, and I read other lyricists. But they were never writing in the style or the form that I was interested in.

My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.

I see a correlation between short stories and songs, because of their length and for what they're meant to evoke. Combine certain words with melodies and it all becomes very moving.

You sit and you let your fingers go to wherever they are going to go. You wait until you start to hear something, and you start to figure out what it is that you're doing. And then you add another piece next to that piece, and wait to see if some kind of pattern or something interesting starts to grow, and then you cultivate it.