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" I don't like fashion. It's very heartless. "
Paul Simon
Very
Fashion
Heartless
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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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" There must be 50 ways to leave your lover. "
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" I don't think that Simon and Garfunkel as a live act compares to Simon and Garfunkel as a studio act. "
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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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" Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard? "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" When we came into the studio I became more and more me, making the tracks and choosing the musicians, partly because a great deal of the time during Bridge, Artie wasn't there. "
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" Someone told me it's all happening at the zoo. "
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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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Life
" The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it. "
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Stay
Finished
" 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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" 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. "
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Great
Good
Bridge
" 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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People
Perfection
Kind
" I always get very calm with baseball. "
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Get
Very
" As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death. "
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Long
Innocent
People
" Mrs. Robinson is a little dated now, but it has nothing to do with Joe DiMaggio. "
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Nothing
" 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
" 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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Lose
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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" There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful. "
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Sound
Silence
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" The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains. "
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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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