Simon and Garfunkel Quotes

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

A man gets tied up to the ground, he gives the world its saddest sound.

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

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

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

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

"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)

I always get very calm with baseball.

It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.

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

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...

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.

Some people never say the words ‘I love you’, for like a child they’re longing to be told.

I have my books and my poetry to protect me