"The more I get to thinking, the..." - Quote by Paul Simon
The more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh.
More by Paul Simon
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
More on Thought
“I feel my brains, like a pear, to see if it's ripe; it will be exquisite by September.”
“In every idea of genius or in every new human idea, or, more simply still, in every serious human idea born in anyone's brain, there is something that cannot possibly be conveyed to others.”
“A thought comes when it will, not when I will.”
More on Happiness
“To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth. As long as one sorely needs a certain additional amount, that man isn't rich.”
“If the ingredients for happiness are not within a person, no material success or entertainment or platinum credit cards can make that person smile.”
“What if in my waking hours a sound should ring through the silent halls of hearing? ... Would the bow and string tension of life snap? Would the heart over weighted with sudden joy stop beating for very excess of happiness?”