Paul Simon Quotes

“You know, life is what you make of it- so beautiful or so what.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“There are lots of really good guitarists, but they play with the same pedals that everybody else does. Everybody buys the same pedals, so the sounds tend to be the same. I am looking for different ways of doing that without having to spend days and weeks and months fooling around with pedals, which I don't enjoy.”

“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.”

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

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

“Jay Ashby is simply a great musician!”

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

“Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?”

“How can you live in the Northeast?”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Sail on silver girlSail on byYour time has come to shineAll your dreams are on their waySee how they shineOh, if you need a friendI'm sailing right behind.”

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