Paul Simon
Paul Simon
Paul Frederic Simonis an American musician, singer-songwriter and actor. Simon's fame, influence, and commercial success began as part of the duo Simon & Garfunkel, formed in 1964 with musical partner Art Garfunkel...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionFolk Singer
Date of Birth13 October 1941
CityNewark, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
song writing guitar
By the time I was 12 or 13, I felt that I was special, because I could play the guitar and write songs.
heart two body
Take two bodies and you twirl them into one, their hearts and their bones, and they won't come undone.
wind hands green
The leaves that are green turn to brown. And they wither with the wind. And they crumble in your hand.
stuff littles spots
To get the stuff out of you, especially if what you're dealing with is yourself, requires you to open up and touch tender spots. You have to be anesthetized a little bit.
love-is games two
The only time that love is an easy game is when two other people are playing it.
thinking laughing
The more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh.
song moving stories
I see a correlation between short stories and songs, because of their length and for what they're meant to evoke. Combine certain words with melodies and it all becomes very moving.
emotional trying sentimental
I feel I should try to reveal. When you hit it right, you produce an emotional response in the listener that can be cathartic. When you're wrong, you're soppy, sentimental.
teacher writing style
Although I was able to study music with teachers, I never studied lyric writing. I read poetry, and I read other lyricists. But they were never writing in the style or the form that I was interested in.
years trying pumps
After all those years of automatic success, you don't get nervous any more. It's really necessary to be nervous and be a little bit frightened. It pumps the adrenalin into you and you really get down there and try.
writing mind lines
As soon as your mind knows that it's on and it's supposed to produce some lines, either it doesn't or it produces things that are very predictable. And that's why I say I'm not interested in writing something that I thought about. I'm interested in discovering where my mind wants to go, or what object it wants to pick up.
thinking two people
There are two sorts of people in the world: Those who listen and those who are thinking about what they are going to say next.
powerful thinking pale
Every time the industry gets powerful, and corporate thinking dominates what the music is, then the music really pales.
bridges water firsts
When I first heard Elvis perform "Bridge Over Trouble Water" it was unbelivable,and I thought to myself, how the hell can I compete with that?