"I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one."
"By the time I was 12 or 13, I felt that I was special, because I could play the guitar and write songs."
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Source: Paul Simon's Workshop at the Guitar Study Center by Richard Albero and Fred Styles, Guitar Player, April 1975.
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