"All I've got to do today is smile."
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"I would not be convicted by a jury of my peers, still crazy after all these years."
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"Two times two is twenty-two, four times four is forty-four. When numbers get serious, they leave a mark on your door."
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"I am just a poor boy, though my story's seldom told, and I have squandered my resistance, for a pocket full of mumbles, such are promises. All lies in jest, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest...la-la-la-la-la-la-la-lala-la-la-la-la..."
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"They've got a wall in China, it's a thousand miles long. To keep out the foreigners, they made it strong. And I've got a wall around me, you can't even see."
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"Medicine is magical and magical is art, the boy in the bubble, and the baby with the baboon heart."
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"The public hungers to see talented young people kill themselves."
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"Most of the time, when I had hits as a soloist - maybe not so much with Simon & Garfunkel - I was surprised they were hits. I didn't know what the hits were. I never thought that 'Loves Me Like A Rock' was going to be a hit, or 'Mother And Child Reunion,' or '50 Ways To Leave Your Lover.' They didn't sound like what the hits sounded like at the time. Radio was more open to things that weren't exactly what every other hit was."
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"The course of a lifetime runs/over and over again"
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"...everything looks worse in black and white."
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"How can you live in the Northeast?"
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"How much can you do with two voices? You can sing thirds or you can sing fifths or you can do a background harmony."
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"She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy I said 'Be careful his bowtie is really a camera'"
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"I won't disturb the slumber of feelings that have died. If I never loved I never would have cried...I am a rock."
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"I really don't know what exactly all the songs mean. Sometimes other people have meanings and when I hear them I think, 'That's really a better meaning than I thought, and perfectly valid, given the words that exist.' So part of what makes a song really good is that people take in different meanings, and they apply them, and they might be more powerful than the ones I'm thinking."
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"I question what emotion Manilow touches. People are entertained by him. But are they emotionally moved? I don't believe anything that Barry Manilow sings."
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"I rate each album as better than the last one. That's how I see it."
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"I don't really know why an idea comes to me. But all of a sudden, an idea comes and from experience I can intuit what something means when an interesting line pops up. Or I can intuit what an interesting choice might be. And I can try a couple of different choices, and see which one feels right, and then continue the song to see where it goes."
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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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"I know a man He came from my home town He wore his passion for his woman Like a thorny crown He said "Dolores I live in fear My love for you's so overpowering I'm afraid that I will disappear"
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