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
art facts enough
Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough.
art essence lost-friendship
I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work.
artist elements
I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.
art mean firsts
Being an artist doesn't mean that you're a good artist. That was the bargain I first made with myself: I'd say, I'm an artist, but I'm not really very good.
baby art boys
Medicine is magical and magical is art, the boy in the bubble, and the baby with the baboon heart.
beauty art communication
...music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.
moving artistic-life interesting
My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It's the only thing I find interesting.
artie became came choosing deal great partly studio time tracks
When we came into the studio I became more and more me, making the tracks and choosing the musicians, partly because a great deal of the time during Bridge, Artie wasn't there.
charlie divorce eat fat files weight year
Fat Charlie the archangel files for divorce, he says, well this will eat up a year of my life, and there's all that weight to be lost.
dreams girl sail shine silver time
Sail on, Silver girl Sail on by Your time has come to shine All your dreams are on their way See how they shine
listening people songs talking voices
People talking without speaking,/ People listening without hearing,/ People writing songs that voices never shared.
ages amazed american-musician expected minor silence sound utterly
Between the ages of 15 and 22, I had made only one very minor hit, so I expected everything to be a flop. I was utterly amazed that The Sound of Silence was a big hit.
beyond brown hands high interior rooms runs school shelf sonny strange struggled thinks thumbs window wonders yearbook
Sonny sits by his window and thinks to himself, how it's strange that some rooms are like cages, Sonny's yearbook from high school is down from the shelf and he idoly thumbs through the pages. Some have died, some have fled from themselves, or struggled from here to get there. Sonny wonders beyond his interior walls, runs his hands through his thining brown hair.
afraid coffee cold fall rattle shake
I fall to my knees, shake a rattle at the sky, I'm afraid that I'll be taken, abandoned, and forsaken in her cold coffee eyes.