I stepped outside to smoke a J and when I came back to the room, everybody just seemed to move. Paul Simon More Quotes by Paul Simon More Quotes From Paul Simon How can you live in the Northeast? Paul Simon Losing love is like a window in your heart. Paul Simon losingheartlove-is Some people never say the words ‘I love you’, for like a child they’re longing to be told. Paul Simon familylovechildren Serious numbers will speak to us always. Paul Simon seriousspeaknumbers There is a moment, a chip in time, when leaving home is the lesser crime. Paul Simon leavingdreamhome The problem is all inside your head, she said to me Paul Simon struggleanswerslife 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 rocksislandsbook 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 rocksfeelingslife Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough. Paul Simon enoughfactsart And you read your emily dickinson, And I my robert frost. And we note our place with bookmarkers That measure what weve lost. Paul Simon notesfrostlost I sort of recognize it, as opposed to shaping it. Oh, that's a good idea, that's a good line. I wonder where I can use that. And when you get into a rhyme group like 'not,' you got a lot of rhymes, you got a lot of choices. The more you do it, the luckier you get. Paul Simon choiceswritingideas Time it was And what a time it was, it was A time of innocence A time of confidences Long ago it must be I have a photograph Preserve your memories They're all that's left you Paul Simon long-agograduationmemories The words come. Usually, it's a long time before they come. And then when they start to come, it doesn't take so long for it to be finished. It takes a long time to begin. And then it sort of gets finished. Paul Simon finishedwritinglong Most of the time, when I had hits as a soloist - maybe not so much with Simon & Garfunkel - I was surprised they were hits. I didn't know what the hits were. I never thought that 'Loves Me Like A Rock' was going to be a hit, or 'Mother And Child Reunion,' or '50 Ways To Leave Your Lover.' They didn't sound like what the hits sounded like at the time. Radio was more open to things that weren't exactly what every other hit was. Paul Simon motherwritingchildren She said a good day ain't got no rain She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed And I think of things that might have been Paul Simon good-dayrainlying I always get very calm with baseball. Paul Simon calmbaseballquiet ...everything looks worse in black and white. Paul Simon black-and-whitephotographylooks And a rock feels no pain; And an island never cries. Paul Simon rockspainislands She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy Paul Simon spyphotographymen Every generation throws a hero up the pop charts. Paul Simon popsgenerationshero
