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Paul Simon Inspirational Quotes (123)

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Just slip out the back, Jack, make a new plan, Stan, you don't need to be coy, Roy, just get yourself free. Hop on the bus, Gus, you don't need to discuss much, just drop off the key, Lee, and get yourself free.
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It was the year of the Beatles, it was the year of the Stones, it was 1964.
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The death penalty is reserved for people who do not
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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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My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.
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Elvis was the reason I picked up the guitar.
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You know, life is what you make of it- so beautiful or so what.
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...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.
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I'm going to Graceland, for reasons I cannot explain. There's some part of me wants to see Graceland. And I may be advised to defend every love, every ending, or maybe there's no obligations now. Maybe I've a reason to believe we all will be received in Graceland.
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By the time I was 12 or 13, I felt that I was special, because I could play the guitar and write songs.
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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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...everything looks worse in black and white.
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The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.
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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 must be 50 ways to leave your lover.
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Take two bodies and you twirl them into one, their hearts and their bones, and they won't come undone.
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Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do.
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All I've got to do today is smile.
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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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Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away.
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There is a moment, a chip in time, when leaving home is the lesser crime.
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Sail on silver girl Sail on by Your time has come to shine All your dreams are on their way See how they shine Oh, if you need a friend I'm sailing right behind.
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The trick is, as I know it, is to care like hell and not give a damn at the same time.
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She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy I said 'Be careful his bowtie is really a camera'
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