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" The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it. "

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" My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It's the only thing I find interesting. "

" Someone told me it's all happening at the zoo. "

" 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. "

" A man sees what he wants to see, And disregards the rest. "

" 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. "

" Listen to the sound of silence. "

" Without Arthur's voice, I never would have enjoyed that success. "

" 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. "

" 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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" The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains. "

" I lived in an attached house. My father used to drive into the wrong driveway all the time. He'd say, Damn it, how do you tell one of these houses from another? "

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" There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful. "

" I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent. "

" I think I have a superior brain and an inferior stature, if you really want to get brutal about it. "

" You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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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" I don't like fashion. It's very heartless. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone. "