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When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.
Paul Simon
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There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.
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As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.
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I'm not in it for the money. I like music. I love to write music. I can't imagine myself not playing or singing or writing. It would just drive me crazy if I didn't.
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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.
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It's a big error to think that because you like somebody's work, you're going to like him.
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We had many more points of agreement than we had points of difference, but we did differ, and the bigger we got, the more insistent we got that each one of us should have his way.
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Mrs. Robinson is a little dated now, but it has nothing to do with Joe DiMaggio.
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I lived in an attached house. My father used to drive into the wrong driveway all the time. He'd say, Damn it, how do you tell one of these houses from another?
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Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.
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One of the things that upset me was some of the criticism leveled at Simon and Garfunkel. I always took exception to it, but actually I agree with a lot of it.
Paul Simon
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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.
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We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry.
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