Quote

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.

Paul Simon

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Paul Simon
Time
Lose
Loses
Special
Looking
Littles
Pompous
Little
Seriousness
Everything
Created
Thing
Humor

More quotes by Paul Simon

Image
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
Image
When I began making my own albums, the songs became funkier. They were more about the streets.
Paul Simon
Image
The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.
Paul Simon
Image
Life I love you, all is groovy.
Paul Simon
Image
You know, life is what you make of it- so beautiful or so what.
Paul Simon
Image
And she said 'Losing love is like a window in your heart, Everybody sees you're blown apart, Everybody feels the wind blow.'
Paul Simon
Image
A lot of talent is a gift, but a lot is also luck. I'm very aware of that. I was born in the right place at the right time. I am also blessed because I've never been a sex symbol. I'm spared the embarrassment of acting young.
Paul Simon
Image
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.
Paul Simon
Image
Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away.
Paul Simon
Image
The more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh.
Paul Simon
Image
The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
Paul Simon
Image
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
Image
I like them all. They're all pictures of me when I wrote them. I have no favorite songs.
Paul Simon
Image
I always get very calm with baseball.
Paul Simon
Image
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
Image
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?
Paul Simon
Image
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.
Paul Simon
Image
The Wisdom is old, the Koran is old, the Bible is old. Disagreements? Work 'em out.
Paul Simon
Image
I met my old lover on the street last night. She seemed so glad to see me, I just smiled. Then we talked about some old times and we drank ourselves some beers, still crazy after all these years.
Paul Simon
Image
Hide it in a hiding place where no one ever goes Put it in your pantry with your cupcakes
Paul Simon