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" All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest. "
Paul Simon
Hear
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Still
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" The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence. "
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" People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music. "
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" We were always able to sing and blend well together; that's our gift. But aside from that, we're really two different guys. "
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" 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. "
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" I rate each album as better than the last one. That's how I see it. "
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" 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. "
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Me
" Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work. "
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" 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. "
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Restaurant
" Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's pleasure, but you don't get wiped out. "
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Time
Pleasure
" I question what emotion Manilow touches. People are entertained by him. But are they emotionally moved? I don't believe anything that Barry Manilow sings. "
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People
Him
Emotion
" 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. "
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Dialogue
" How much can you do with two voices? You can sing thirds or you can sing fifths or you can do a background harmony. "
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You
Background
" It's a big error to think that because you like somebody's work, you're going to like him. "
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Think
Work
" As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death. "
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People
" 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. "
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Special
" 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. "
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Your
Pointless
" I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent. "
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" I always get very calm with baseball. "
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Very
" I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives. "
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Artist
Life
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" My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears. "
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" When I began making my own albums, the songs became funkier. They were more about the streets. "
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" One of the things that upset me was some of the criticism leveled at Simon and Garfunkel. I always took exception to it, but actually I agree with a lot of it. "
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" Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone. "
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