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" I always get very calm with baseball. "
Paul Simon
Calm
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Very
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" The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains. "
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" When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal. "
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" I'm not in it for the money. I like music. I love to write music. I can't imagine myself not playing or singing or writing. It would just drive me crazy if I didn't. "
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" Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work. "
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" 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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" 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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" We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry. "
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" I don't believe what the papers are saying They're just out to capture my dime, Exaggerating this, exaggerating that. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it. "
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" Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard? "
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Soft
Rest
" There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful. "
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Something
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" A man sees what he wants to see, And disregards the rest. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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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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