Paul Simon Quotes

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.

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.

Poverty is not an act of God. It is the result of flawed policy, and that is a moral challenge.

A fundamental requirement, overriding any other for this job, is an understanding of deafness-what it is and how it affects the educational experience.

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

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.

I don't know what I'm going to write when I begin to write. It feels like you are walking down a path, but you can't see around the bend and you don't know where you are going to go, which is fun.

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

A songwriter's supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time

The phrasing didn't work as well.

I met my old lover on the street last night. She seemed so glad to see me, I just smiled. Then we talked about some old times and we drank ourselves some beers, still crazy after all these years.

I don't think [Dylan and the Beatles] influenced me a lot. I think it was inevitable; they were so powerful that you couldn't really escape the influence.

Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do.

Was a sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. Not a negative word was heard.

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

Serious numbers will speak to us always.

The death penalty is reserved for people who do not

Mrs. Robinson is a little dated now, but it has nothing to do with Joe DiMaggio.

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

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

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

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

The students of Gallaudet have sent a powerful message across this country!

We've survived by believing our life is going to get better.

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

People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.

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

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

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.

There is a moment, a chip in time, when leaving home is the lesser crime.

I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do.

When I was a young reporter, the great vice among journalists was whiskey. Today, it's cynicism.

There are two sorts of people in the world: Those who listen and those who are thinking about what they are going to say next.

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

Nor is it strange That after changes upon changes, we are more or less the same

So I'll continue to continue to pretend my life will never end, and flowers never bend with the rainfall.

I have my books and my poetry to protect me

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

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

Every generation throws a hero up the pop charts.

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

Breakdowns come, and breakdowns go.

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.

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.

If you'll be my body guard, I can be your long lost pal.

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

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

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

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

We work our jobs, collect our pay, believe were gliding down the highway, when in fact we're slip sliding away.