Quotes About Paul Simon

#1. Somewhere in a burst of glory / Sound becomes a song.

Paul Simon

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

Paul Simon

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

Paul Simon

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

Paul Simon

#5. You can burn down my churches. But I shall be free.

Paul Simon

#6. How can you live in the Northeast?

Paul Simon

#7. Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.

Paul Simon

#8. People ask how I feel about getting old. I tell them I have the same question. I'm learning as I go.

Paul Simon

#9. When I first heard Elvis perform "Bridge Over Trouble Water" it was unbelivable,and I thought to myself, how the hell can I compete with that?

Paul Simon

#10. Simon Gathercole argues that both Paul and the Gospel writers considered the good news to have three basic elements: the identity of Jesus as Son of God and Messiah, the death of Jesus for sin and justification, and the establishment of the reign of God and the new creation.12

Timothy Keller

#11. Somehow you can tell the difference when a song is written just to get on the radio and when what someone does is their whole life. That comes through in Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Willie Nelson. There is no separating their life from their music.

Lyle Lovett

#12. When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.

Paul Simon

#13. Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped!

Joni Mitchell

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

Paul Simon

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

Paul Simon

#16. 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.

Paul Simon

#17. 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.

Paul Simon

#18. Time, time, time, see what's become of me,
While I looked around,
For my possibilities;
I was so hard to please

Paul Simon

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

Paul Simon

#20. I didn't want to try and borrow kudos from Indonesian culture. I was trying to get a fresh perspective on these instruments. I'm not doing a Paul Simon Gracelands and stealing all this African music and not give anyone any credit.

Squarepusher

#21. I won't disturb the slumber of feelings that have died. If I never loved I never would have cried ... I am a rock.

Paul Simon

#22. One of the biggest obstacles I've overcome in my life was thinking I didn't deserve to be successful. Artistically I'm not as much of a heavyweight as someone like Paul Simon or Joni Mitchell, because I'm not a creator of original music, and I worried about that for years.

Bonnie Raitt

#23. I know a man
He came from my home town
He wore his passion for his woman
Like a thorny crown
He said Dolores
I live in fear
My love for you's so overpowering
I'm afraid that I will disappear

Paul Simon

#24. The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.

Paul Simon

#25. Anthony Heilbut has been a guide and a mentor to me. I know of no one who has the love and depth of knowledge of this extraordinary author.

Paul Simon

#26. People say a lie is just a lie, but I say why deny the obvious child.

Paul Simon

#27. Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.

Paul Simon

#28. You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.

Paul Simon

#29. Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.

Paul Simon

#30. Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

Paul Simon

#31. It's a big error to think that because you like somebody's work, you're going to like him.

Paul Simon

#32. Without Arthur's voice, I never would have enjoyed that success.

Paul Simon

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

Paul Simon

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

Paul Simon

#35. All God requires from us is to enjoy life and love. That's the whole point.

Paul Simon

#36. By the time I was 12 or 13, I felt that I was special, because I could play the guitar and write songs.

Paul Simon

#37. 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

#38. Being an artist doesn't mean that you're a good artist. That was the bargain I first made with myself: I'd say, I'm an artist, but I'm not really very good.

Paul Simon

#39. My voice is my improvisational instrument, the melody instrument. The guitar is harmonic structure. I'm not a good enough guitarist to improvise on it.

Paul Simon

#40. The public hungers to see talented young people kill themselves.

Paul Simon

#41. These are the days of lasers in the jungle, staccato signals of constant information ...

Paul Simon

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

Paul Simon

#43. Life I love you, all is groovy.

Paul Simon

#44. Steve Howe met Paul Simon and said that Paul was very approving of our version of 'America.'

Chris Squire

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

Paul Simon

#46. And I must be what I must be and face tomorrow.

Paul Simon

#47. 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.

Paul Simon

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

Paul Simon

#49. I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I'm through.

Paul Simon

#50. Every generation throws a hero up the pop charts.

Paul Simon

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

Paul Simon

#52. The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.

Paul Simon

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

Paul Simon

#54. 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.

Paul Simon

#55. I feel I should try to reveal. When you hit it right, you produce an emotional response in the listener that can be cathartic. When you're wrong, you're soppy, sentimental.

Paul Simon

#56. I'm probably the only one in the world you can name that's worked with Billie Holiday, Louie Armstrong, Ella, Duke, Miles, Dizzy, Ray Charles, Aretha, Michael Jackson, rappers. 'Fly Me to the Moon' was played on the moon by Buzz Aldrin. Sinatra. Paul Simon. Tony Bennett. I'm the only one.

Quincy Jones

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

Paul Simon

#58. And she said 'Losing love is like a window in your heart,
Everybody sees you're blown apart,
Everybody feels the wind blow.'

Paul Simon

#59. Artie travels all the time. The rehearsals were just miserable. Artie and I fought all the time. He didn't want to do the show with my band; he just wanted me on acoustic guitar.

Paul Simon

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

Paul Simon

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

Paul Simon

#62. Don't want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard.

Paul Simon

#63. They've got a wall in China, it's a thousand miles long. To keep out the foreigners, they made it strong. And I've got a wall around me, you can't even see.

Paul Simon

#64. Given all the facts that I'm young and I'm in good health and I'm famous - that I have talent, I have money - given all these facts, I want to know why I'm so unhappy.

Paul Simon

#65. We just did what we'd done when we were an act in the '60s. But I found it impossible to hold a dialogue with 500,000 people. In a certain sense, it was numbing.

Paul Simon

#66. The first guy I really liked and was kind of obsessed with and had to seek out and find more of his films was Jean-Paul Belmondo. He was the main guy that I was obsessed with.

Simon Baker

#67. 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.

Paul Simon

#68. What threatens us today in the world of computers and other invasions of privacy is not a national ID card but a number of other things.

Paul Simon

#69. People talking without speaking,/ People listening without hearing ... Sounds of Silence.

Paul Simon

#70. Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.

Paul Simon

#71. I'm always going forward toward something, and that something is usually an album, because I like to record. I probably like to record more than I like to write.

Paul Simon

#72. A man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest.

Paul Simon

#73. Paul Simon is my absolute hero. He's one of a kind. He wrote his own ticket in life by being himself.

Brett Dennen

#74. Paul is a liar, he said so. (Romans 3:7.)

Simon Ewins

#75. I read the graffiti written on the walls of my brain. Then I use my writing to give it voice so it won't simply be "whispered in the sounds of silence." (Apologies to Paul Simon)

Dick Peterson

#76. 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.

Paul Simon

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

Paul Simon

#78. The Wisdom is old, the Koran is old, the Bible is old. Disagreements? Work 'em out.

Paul Simon

#79. Then on to all the terrific american songwriters, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles, from Bob Dylan to Paul Simon. Whoever wrote and sang in the song form I have appreciated.

Tom Chapin

#80. Time it was And what a time it was, it was A time of innocence A time of confidences Long ago it must be I have a photograph Preserve your memories They're all that's left you

Paul Simon

#81. The more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh.

Paul Simon

#82. Jay Ashby is simply a great musician!

Paul Simon

#83. 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.

Paul Simon

#84. You know, life is what you make of it- so beautiful or so what.

Paul Simon

#85. We're living in a certain time, and we're aware of it. And that's part of what we're aware of, along with our own personal aches and pains.

Paul Simon

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

Paul Simon

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

Paul Simon

#88. I've got nothing to do today but smile.

Paul Simon

#89. 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.

Paul Simon

#90. Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away.

Paul Simon

#91. Cecilia was made in a living room on a Sony. It was like a little piece of magical fluff, bur it works. El Condor Pasa a Los Incas record that I love. Bridge is a very strong melodic song.

Paul Simon

#92. After all those years of automatic success, you don't get nervous any more. It's really necessary to be nervous and be a little bit frightened. It pumps the adrenalin into you and you really get down there and try.

Paul Simon

#93. Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.

Paul Simon

#94. I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work.

Paul Simon

#95. Listen to the sound of silence.

Paul Simon

#96. Maybe the heart is part of the mist.
And that's all that there is or could ever exist.
Maybe and maybe and maybe some more.
Maybe's the exit that I'm looking for.

Paul Simon

#97. The risk of failure is part of the fun of what I do.

Paul Simon

#98. Serious numbers will speak to us always.

Paul Simon

#99. 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.

Paul Simon

#100. I regret the ending of our friendship and hope one day before we die, we'll make peace with each other ... No rush.

Paul Simon