Quote

Don't want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard.

Paul Simon

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Paul Simon
Graves
Death
Ends
Yard
Yards
Cartoon
Grave

More quotes by Paul Simon

Image
A phenomenon occurs but because you're in the middle of it, you just think it's your life-until it's over. And then you look back and say, What an unusual thing happened to me in the '60s.
Paul Simon
Image
I have my books and my poetry to protect me
Paul Simon
Image
To get the stuff out of you, especially if what you're dealing with is yourself, requires you to open up and touch tender spots. You have to be anesthetized a little bit.
Paul Simon
Image
I question what emotion Manilow touches. People are entertained by him. But are they emotionally moved? I don't believe anything that Barry Manilow sings.
Paul Simon
Image
The public hungers to see talented young people kill themselves.
Paul Simon
Image
And I must be what I must be and face tomorrow.
Paul Simon
Image
I didn't get how big it was until I went home, turned on the television and saw it on all the news, and later that night on the front pages of all the newspapers. Then I got it.
Paul Simon
Image
After all those years of automatic success, you don't get nervous any more. It's really necessary to be nervous and be a little bit frightened. It pumps the adrenalin into you and you really get down there and try.
Paul Simon
Image
The leaves that are green turn to brown. And they wither with the wind. And they crumble in your hand.
Paul Simon
Image
She said, why don't we both just sleep on it tonight, And I believe, in the morning you'll begin to see the light. And then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right, There must be fifty ways to leave your lover, fifty ways to leave your lover.
Paul Simon
Image
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
Image
If you'll be my body guard, I can be your long lost pal.
Paul Simon
Image
I feel I should try to reveal. When you hit it right, you produce an emotional response in the listener that can be cathartic. When you're wrong, you're soppy, sentimental.
Paul Simon
Image
I always get very calm with baseball.
Paul Simon
Image
There are lots of really good guitarists, but they play with the same pedals that everybody else does. Everybody buys the same pedals, so the sounds tend to be the same. I am looking for different ways of doing that without having to spend days and weeks and months fooling around with pedals, which I don't enjoy.
Paul Simon
Image
...music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.
Paul Simon
Image
Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.
Paul Simon
Image
The dialogue between what's going on in the world and what's going on internally seems to be a natural thing - well, it's natural to me, anyway, to have these thoughts.
Paul Simon
Image
And so you see I have come to doubt -All that I once held as true ~ I stand alone without beliefs -The only truth I know is you
Paul Simon
Image
Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.
Paul Simon