Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Paul Simon
Thing
Occurs
Think
Unusual
Thinking
Phenomenon
Life
Middle
Happened
Back
Look
Looks

More quotes by Paul Simon

Image
Take me. I'm an ordinary player in the key of C. And my will was broken by my pride and my vanity. Who's gonna love you when you're looks are gone? God will. Like he waters the flowers on your window sill.
Paul Simon
Image
I've got nothing to do today but smile.
Paul Simon
Image
Take two bodies and you twirl them into one, their hearts and their bones, and they won't come undone.
Paul Simon
Image
My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.
Paul Simon
Image
The Wisdom is old, the Koran is old, the Bible is old. Disagreements? Work 'em out.
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
There must be 50 ways to leave your lover.
Paul Simon
Image
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.
Paul Simon
Image
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
Image
So I'll continue to continue to pretend my life will never end, and flowers never bend with the rainfall.
Paul Simon
Image
The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.
Paul Simon
Image
I have my books And my poetry to protect me I am shielded in my armor, Hiding in my room, safe within my womb. I touch no one and no one touches me. I am a rock, I am an island.
Paul Simon
Image
I won't disturb the slumber of feelings that have died. If I never loved I never would have cried...I am a rock.
Paul Simon
Image
The risk of failure is part of the fun of what I do.
Paul Simon
Image
Maybe the heart is part of the mist. And that's all that there is or could ever exist. Maybe and maybe and maybe some more. Maybe's the exit that I'm looking for.
Paul Simon
Image
Who's gonna love you when your looks are gone?
Paul Simon
Image
I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.
Paul Simon
Image
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
Image
It's outrageous to line your pockets off the misery of the poor It's outrageous, the crimes some human beings must endure.
Paul Simon
Image
I have my books and my poetry to protect me
Paul Simon