Simon and Garfunkel Quotes

Sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.

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...

"America"

“Let us be lovers, we’ll marry our fortunes together
I’ve got some real estate here in my bag”
So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner’s pies
And walked off to look for America

“Kathy,” I said, as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh
“Michigan seems like a dream to me now
It took me four days to hitch-hike from Saginaw
I’ve come to look for America”

Laughing on the bus
Playing games with the faces
She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy
I said, “Be careful, his bow tie is really a camera”

“Toss me a cigarette, I think there’s one in my raincoat”
“We smoked the last one an hour ago”
So I looked at the scenery, she read her magazine
And the moon rose over an open field

“Kathy, I’m lost,” I said, thought I knew she was sleeping.
“I’m empty and aching and I don’t know why”
Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike
They’ve all come to look for America
All come to look for America
All come to look for America

Bookends (1968)

"Cavett. "What makes you stuck?"
Simon. "Well, everywhere I went led me to where I didn't want to be, so I was stuck

All I've got to do today is smile.

And a rock feels no pain;
And an island never cries.

We note our place with bookmarkers
That measure what we've lost.

"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

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

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

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

Cavett: What makes you stuck?
Simon: Well, everywhere I went led me to where I didn't want to be, so I was stuck.

And I'm afraid that I'll be taken, abandoned, forsaken
In her cold coffee eyes

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

I've got nothing to do today but smile.