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Paul Simon

American

October 13, 1941

Musician

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Listen to the sound of silence.

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There must be 50 ways to leave your lover.

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

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Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

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You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.

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People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.

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As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.

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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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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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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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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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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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Being an artist doesn't mean that you're a good artist. That was the bargain I first made with myself: I'd say, I'm an artist, but I'm not really very good.

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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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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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Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's pleasure, but you don't get wiped out.

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