Paul Simon Quotes

I have gone through different phases in my music writing. There was a time when I used a little exercise — incorporating all of the twelve notes in the chromatic scale — to get me going. I used this technique for a while, but I don't any longer because I am going back to simpler melodies. Originally I moved away from the simple songs because I thought they were too simple.

It's easy to be generous when you're on a roll
It's hard to be grateful when you're out of control

The problem is all inside your head, she said to me The answer is easy if you take it logically I'd like to help you in your struggle to be free There must be fifty ways to leave your lover.

Peace like a river ran through the city
Long past the midnight curfew
We sat starry-eyed We were satisfied...
You can beat us with wires You can beat us with chains
You can run out your rules
But you know you can't outrun the history train

Hang on to your hopes, my friend.
That's an easy thing to say,
But if your hopes should pass away
Simply pretend that you can build them again.

A young girl in a parkin' lot was preaching to a crowd
Singing sacred songs and reading from the Bible
Well, I told her I was lost and she told all about the Pentecost
And I seen that girl as the road to my survival...
Even now that sweet memory lingers

And in the naked light I saw Ten thousand people maybe more People talking without speaking People hearing without listening People writing songs that voices never shared No one dared Disturb the sound of silence.

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 looks around around
He sees angels in the architecture
Spinning in infinity
He says Amen and Hallelujah.

Tonight I'll sing my songs again,
I'll play the game and pretend.
But all my words come back to me in shades of mediocrity
Like emptiness in harmony I need someone to comfort me.

Come on, take me to the Mardi Gras,
Where the people sing and play,
Where the music is elite and there's dancing in the street,
Both night and day.

She said, why don't we both just sleep on it tonight And I believe, in the morning you'll begin to see the light And then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right There must be fifty ways to leave your lover, fifty ways to leave your lover

Once upon a time there was an ocean.
But now it's a mountain range.
Something unstoppable put into motion.
Nothing is different, but everything's changed.

If you’ll be my bodyguard
I can be your long lost pal
I can call you Betty
And Betty when you call me
You can call me Al.

I met my old lover on the street last night,
She seemed so glad to see me, I just smiled,
And we talked about some old times, and we drank ourselves some beers,
Still crazy after all these years,
Oh, still crazy after all these years.

There were incidents and accidents
There were hints and allegations...