Paul Simon Quotes

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Paul Simon

Profession : Musician

Birth : October 13, 1941

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

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.

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When we came into the studio I became more and more me, making the tracks and choosing the musicians, partly because a great deal of the time during Bridge, Artie wasn't there.

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

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When I began making my own albums, the songs became funkier. They were more about the streets.

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

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We just did what we'd done when we were an act in the '60s. But I found it impossible to hold a dialogue with 500,000 people. In a certain sense, it was numbing.

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We had many more points of agreement than we had points of difference, but we did differ, and the bigger we got, the more insistent we got that each one of us should have his way.

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We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry.

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

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One of the things that upset me was some of the criticism leveled at Simon and Garfunkel. I always took exception to it, but actually I agree with a lot of it.

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My voice is my improvisational instrument, the melody instrument. The guitar is harmonic structure. I'm not a good enough guitarist to improvise on it.

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

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

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

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

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I don't like fashion. It's very heartless.

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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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Artie travels all the time. The rehearsals were just miserable. Artie and I fought all the time. He didn't want to do the show with my band; he just wanted me on acoustic guitar.

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My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.

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