Paul Simon

People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music. ↗

— Paul Simon

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The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains. ↗

— Paul Simon

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There must be 50 ways to leave your lover. ↗

— Paul Simon

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We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry. ↗

— Paul Simon

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We had many more points of agreement than we had points of difference, but we did differ, and the bigger we got, the more insistent we got that each one of us should have his way. ↗

— Paul Simon

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We just did what we'd done when we were an act in the '60s. But I found it impossible to hold a dialogue with 500,000 people. In a certain sense, it was numbing. ↗

— Paul Simon

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We were always able to sing and blend well together; that's our gift. But aside from that, we're really two different guys. ↗

— Paul Simon

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When I began making my own albums, the songs became funkier. They were more about the streets. ↗

— Paul Simon

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When we came into the studio I became more and more me, making the tracks and choosing the musicians, partly because a great deal of the time during Bridge, Artie wasn't there. ↗

— Paul Simon

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When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal. ↗

— Paul Simon

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