Paul Simon Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Paul Simon

Paul Simon Quotes & Sayings

Happy to read and share the best inspirational Paul Simon quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.

Every generation throws a hero up the pop charts. — Paul Simon

Was a sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. Not a negative word was heard. — Paul Simon

It's a big error to think that because you like somebody's work, you're going to like him. — Paul Simon

And I must be what I must be and face tomorrow. — Paul Simon

When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal. — Paul Simon

If you'll be my body guard, I can be your long lost pal. — Paul Simon

People say a lie is just a lie, but I say why deny the obvious child. — Paul Simon

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. — Paul Simon

The trick is, as I know it, is to care like hell
and not give a damn at the same time. — Paul Simon

There must be 50 ways to leave your lover. — Paul Simon

Someone told me it's all happening at the zoo. — Paul Simon

You know, life is what you make of it- so beautiful or so what. — Paul Simon

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

Every time the industry gets powerful, and corporate thinking dominates what the music is, then the music really pales. — Paul Simon

You have underestimated my power, as you will shortly discover. — Paul Simon

I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent. — Paul Simon

Two times two is twenty-two, four times four is forty-four. When numbers get serious, they leave a mark on your door. — Paul Simon

Life I love you, all is groovy. — Paul Simon

The death penalty is reserved for people who do not — Paul Simon

People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music. — Paul Simon

Paul Simon is my absolute hero. He's one of a kind. He wrote his own ticket in life by being himself. — Brett Dennen

How can you live in the Northeast? — Paul Simon

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard? — Paul Simon

The Wisdom is old, the Koran is old, the Bible is old. Disagreements? Work 'em out. — Paul Simon

By the time I was 12 or 13, I felt that I was special, because I could play the guitar and write songs. — Paul Simon

Breakdowns come, and breakdowns go. — Paul Simon

Far above the golden clouds, the darkness vibrates.
The earth is blue.
And everything about it is a love song. Everything about it. — Paul Simon

Love is an island in the setting sun — Paul Simon

I would not be convicted by a jury of my peers, still crazy after all these years. — Paul Simon

Take two bodies and you twirl them into one, their hearts and their bones, and they won't come undone. — Paul Simon

I've got a reason to believe we all be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee. — Paul Simon

How much can you do with two voices? You can sing thirds or you can sing fifths or you can do a background harmony. — Paul Simon

Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that. — Paul Simon

Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work. — Paul Simon

I always get very calm with baseball. — Paul Simon

On Art Garfunkel - He makes Paul Simon look like LL Cool J. — Ian Gittins

The public hungers to see talented young people kill themselves. — Paul Simon

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die. — Paul Simon

Couple in the next room bound to win a prize, they've been going at it all night long. — Paul Simon

Maybe I think too much for my own good. — Paul Simon

I don't think that Simon and Garfunkel as a live act compares to Simon and Garfunkel as a studio act. — Paul Simon

Listen to the sound of silence. — Paul Simon

Mrs. Robinson is a little dated now, but it has nothing to do with Joe DiMaggio. — Paul Simon

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

It was easier than explaining DiMaggio's use as a metaphor. — Paul Simon

I don't believe what the papers are saying They're just out to capture my dime, Exaggerating this, exaggerating that. — Paul Simon

A man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest. — Paul Simon

The phrasing didn't work as well. — Paul Simon

When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all — Paul Simon

The course of a lifetime runs/over and over again — Paul Simon

So I'll continue to continue to pretend my life will never end, and flowers never bend with the rainfall. — Paul Simon

Someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire. — Paul Simon

It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good. — Paul Simon

I've got nothing to do today but smile. — Paul Simon

These are the days of miracle and wonder. — Paul Simon

The leaves that are green turn to brown. And they wither with the wind. And they crumble in your hand. — Paul Simon

The risk of failure is part of the fun of what I do. — Paul Simon

Steve Howe met Paul Simon and said that Paul was very approving of our version of 'America.' — Chris Squire

I don't like fashion. It's very heartless. — Paul Simon

As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death. — Paul Simon

Much of songwriting is simply a mystery. — Paul Simon

The only time that love is an easy game is when two other people are playing it. — Paul Simon

I'm just trying to keep my customer satisfied. — Paul Simon

I don't consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I'm growing. — Paul Simon

A songwriter's supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time — Paul Simon

When I was a young reporter, the great vice among journalists was whiskey. Today, it's cynicism. — Paul Simon

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

Who's gonna love you when your looks are gone? — Paul Simon

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

I met my old lover on the street last night, she seemed glad to see me. — Paul Simon

The degree of customization possible through your Preferences screens is awesome. — Paul Simon

Well I'm on my way
I don't know where I'm going
I'm on my way I'm taking my time
But I don't know where — Paul Simon

Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again. — Paul Simon

Nor is it strange That after changes upon changes, we are more or less the same — Paul Simon

I like them all ... They're all pictures of me when I wrote them ... I have no favorite songs. — Paul Simon

She said a good day ain't got no rain
She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed
And I think of things that might have been — Paul Simon

What threatens us today in the world of computers and other invasions of privacy is not a national ID card but a number of other things. — Paul Simon

Who am I to blow against the wind? — Paul Simon

Improvisation is too good to leave to chance. — Paul Simon

Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life. — Paul Simon

Paul is a liar, he said so. (Romans 3:7.) — Simon Ewins

You can burn down my churches. But I shall be free. — Paul Simon

Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you. — Paul Simon

And all the people said 'What a shame that he's dead, but wasn't he a most peculiar man? — Paul Simon

We've survived by believing our life is going to get better. — Paul Simon

Medicine is magical and magical is art, the boy in the bubble, and the baby with the baboon heart. — Paul Simon

I'm laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone, Going home, where the new york city winters aren't bleedin' me. — Paul Simon

I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I'm through. — Paul Simon

Hide it in a hiding place where no one ever goes
Put it in your pantry with your cupcakes — Paul Simon

Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped! — Joni Mitchell

People talking without speaking,/ People listening without hearing ... Sounds of Silence. — Paul Simon

People ask how I think up my thoughts. Mostly I think them up while reading Paul Simon's lyrics. — Robert Breault

She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy
I said 'Be careful his bowtie is really a camera' — Paul Simon

We were always able to sing and blend well together; that's our gift. But aside from that, we're really two different guys. — Paul Simon

And a rock feels no pain; And an island never cries. — Paul Simon

I rate each album as better than the last one. That's how I see it. — Paul Simon

I stepped outside to smoke a J and when I came back to the room, everybody just seemed to move. — Paul Simon

It was the year of the Beatles, it was the year of the Stones, it was 1964. — Paul Simon

A man sees what he wants to see and disregards the rest. - Paraphrased from The Boxer — Paul Simon

I want to grow up with my audience. I don't expect to be getting through to the younger pop crowd. I learned that from Paul Simon. — Joe Strummer