Latest Paul Simon Quotes from Interviews

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• You sit and you let your fingers go to wherever they are going to go. You wait until you start to hear something, and you start to figure out what it is that you're doing. And then you add another piece next to that piece, and wait to see if some kind of pattern or something interesting starts to grow, and then you cultivate it.

  Paul Simon

  Interesting, Waiting, Kind

  Source: music.avclub.com

• The dialogue between what's going on in the world and what's going on internally seems to be a natural thing - well, it's natural to me, anyway, to have these thoughts.

  Paul Simon

  World, Natural, Dialogue

  Source: www.wbur.org

• Philip Larkin didn't write for several years before his life ended. And when he was asked why he didn't write, he said the muse deserted him. And when I read that, it really had a profound effect upon me, sort of scared me. So that's why I think I have no right to assume that some thought is going to come... But I think, in my imagination, if it is it, there will probably be something else I'm interested in.

  Paul Simon

  Writing, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.wbur.org

• We're living in a certain time, and we're aware of it. And that's part of what we're aware of, along with our own personal aches and pains.

  Paul Simon

  Pain, Ache, Aches And Pains

  Source: www.wbur.org

• Given all the facts that I'm young and I'm in good health and I'm famous - that I have talent, I have money - given all these facts, I want to know why I'm so unhappy.

  Paul Simon

  Unhappy, Want, Facts

  Source: www.uh.cz

• The abstract music is just more interesting because it doesn't really have anything to say, but if it is good, it creates thoughts and feelings, and I enjoy that. For me, once the music creates those thoughts and feelings, I begin to write a song about it.

  Paul Simon

  Song, Writing, Interesting

  Source: www.avclub.com

• There are lots of really good guitarists, but they play with the same pedals that everybody else does. Everybody buys the same pedals, so the sounds tend to be the same. I am looking for different ways of doing that without having to spend days and weeks and months fooling around with pedals, which I don't enjoy.

  Paul Simon

  Play, Sound, Doe

  Interview with Steven Hyden, music.avclub.com. March 28, 2011.

• I'm always going forward toward something, and that something is usually an album, because I like to record. I probably like to record more than I like to write.

  Paul Simon

  Writing, Albums, Records

  Interview with Steven Hyden, music.avclub.com. March 28, 2011.

• I like working with sound; sound and rhythm. I like the abstract more than "What does that mean?" Nobody ever says to you, "Why did you use a harmonium?" Or "What is that ringing sound that occurs here?" The questions are always "What does that song mean?" or "What were you trying to say here?"

  Paul Simon

  Song, Mean, Trying

  Interview with Steven Hyden, music.avclub.com. March 28, 2011.

• I don't know what I'm going to write when I begin to write. It feels like you are walking down a path, but you can't see around the bend and you don't know where you are going to go, which is fun.

  Paul Simon

  Fun, Writing, Path

  Source: www.pbs.org