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
years stones
It was the year of the Beatles, it was the year of the Stones, it was 1964.
wall believe bricks
Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.
moving alcohol drug
I stepped outside to smoke a J and when I came back to the room, everybody just seemed to move.
doors two numbers
Two times two is twenty-two, four times four is forty-four. When numbers get serious, they leave a mark on your door.
inspirational people feels
People ask how I feel about getting old. I tell them I have the same question. I'm learning as I go.
new-york home winter
I'm laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone, Going home, where the new york city winters aren't bleedin' me.
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?
powerful thinking pale
Every time the industry gets powerful, and corporate thinking dominates what the music is, then the music really pales.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.