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"I met my old lover on the street last night. She seemed so glad to see me, I just smiled. Then we talked about some old times and we drank ourselves some beers, still crazy after all these years."
"A songwriter's supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time"
"The phrasing didn't work as well."
"People talking without speaking,/ People listening without hearing...Sounds of Silence."
"Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do."
"I don't think [Dylan and the Beatles] influenced me a lot. I think it was inevitable; they were so powerful that you couldn't really escape the influence."
"In the clearing stands the boxer, and a fighter by his trade. And he carries a reminder of every glove that laid him down... or cut him till he cried out in his anger and his shame "I am leaving! I am leaving" but the fighter still remains."
"Serious numbers will speak to us always."
"Time, time, time, see what's become of me, While I looked around, For my possibilities; I was so hard to please"
"Was a sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. Not a negative word was heard."
"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."
"When I began making my own albums, the songs became funkier. They were more about the streets."
"The death penalty is reserved for people who do not"
"Mrs. Robinson is a little dated now, but it has nothing to do with Joe DiMaggio."
"I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent."
"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."
"Some people never say the words ‘I love you’, for like a child they’re longing to be told."
"The risk of failure is part of the fun of what I do."
"These are the days of lasers in the jungle, staccato signals of constant information."
"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."