Quotes from Paul Simon

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.

Hello darkness, my old friend I've come to talk with you again.

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

And you read your emily dickinson, And I my robert frost. And we note our place with bookmarkers That measure what weve lost.

All I've got to do today is smile.

I know a man He came from my home town He wore his passion for his woman Like a thorny crown He said Dolores I live in fear My love for you's so overpowering I'm afraid that I will disappear

Some people never say the words 'I love you'. It's not their style to be so bold. Some people never say those words: 'I love you' But, like a child, they're longing to be told

Sail on silver girl, sail on by...your time has come to shine all your dreams are on their way...see how they shine..oh and if you need a friend. I'm sailing right behind......

I have my books and my poetry to protect me.

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

When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all

A man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest.

And I must be what I must be and face tomorrow.

A man sees what he wants to see and disregards the rest. - Paraphrased from The Boxer

Someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire.

A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around. He doesn't speak the language. He holds no currency. He is a foreign man. He is surrounded by the sound, sound of cattle in the marketplace, scatterlings and orphanages. He looks around, around he sees angels in the architecture spinning in infinity and he says, Amen and Hallelujah!

I am just a poor boy, though my story's seldom told, and I have squandered my resistance, for a pocket full of mumbles, such are promises. All lies in jest, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest...la-la-la-la-la-la-la-lala-la-la-la-la...

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

Every generation throws a hero up the pop charts.

Medicine is magical and magical is art, the boy in the bubble, and the baby with the baboon heart.

We work our jobs, collect our pay, believe were gliding down the highway, when in fact we're slip sliding away.

The Wisdom is old, the Koran is old, the Bible is old. Disagreements? Work 'em out.

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

There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.