Paul Simon
Related ROB MCCLURE I had this contract to write songs for people when I was about 18. I don't think any of them wer... DOUGLAS HODGE BOB DYLAN OLLY MURS There are some good songs, but not the kind of song-writing that I remember, that I like. Springstee... JACKIE DESHANNON I've covered Avril Lavigne. I like good pop songs, and I don't think there should be any kin... BEN GIBBARD In Mudcrutch we all wrote songs, and when it got to the focus on Tom and the Heartbreakers, I kept w... BENMONT TENCH JOANNA LUMLEY I'm a bit of a slag... Some people don't think it's very nice, but I don't care... I... ROBBIE WILLIAMS BEN ELTON I think I write very good songs. But I don't know if anybody could record my songs with as much ... ART ALEXAKIS THOMAS SANGSTER JOHN LYDON I don't think I've had any great success in predicting politics or social change, nor have I... PAUL KRUGMAN FRANKA POTENTE MARY BERRY I don't think I was considered to be a cabaret singer because I didn't have patter that was ... RITA COOLIDGE I love singing and I think I have a really nice voice, but I don't think I have an unbelievable ... KATIE FINNERAN JERRY GARCIA TED RALL JOHN IRVING I've never been innocent, but I don't think I'm a bad kid! I didn't get voted prom k... JAKE T. AUSTIN I was signed to a record label when I was younger. I was in a group, and I just wasn't - persona... TIKA SUMPTER While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what&... DAVID ANTIN WINONA RYDER SUE MONK KIDD GEORGE HARRISON I've always written songs since I was a kid - always. BENMONT TENCH BRENDA LEE He's written some great songs. I thought that 'Blues Man' was a perfect song for me to d... ALAN JACKSON There's a few times in the past when I wrote a song, and I put the words together, and they were... JUSTIN VERNON I was just reading about Paul Simon in 'Uncut', and it was fascinating. I never think about ... J MASCIS TERRY GOODKIND SEAN CONNERY College didn't stick, so I worked odd jobs, but I've always written songs and played music. ... CHRIS STAPLETON I don't write all my stuff. Everybody always thinks that. But in just about every album I've... ALAN JACKSON It sounds odd, but I was a singer and started writing songs, and I didn't have anything in mind.... BILL MEDLEY I don't really think about having had a hard life. It was just my life, and it's all I knew.... GRETCHEN WILSON Starting a band is the easy part. Once you've formed the band, you have to tell a story, and tha... THE EDGE I don't think I was really addicted. I used it as a party tool. TANYA TUCKER I've written songs sober and I've written songs high. BARRY MANN ADRIANA LIMA I don't think I've been in a supporting role in any of the plays I've done, ever. PENELOPE WILTON RICHARD FORD TOM PETTY Every song I've written is luck, I think; it's luck - 'How did that just happen?' DARON MALAKIAN I don't usually get star struck, but I met Sir Paul McCartney randomly on Sunset Boulevard a few... STERLING KNIGHT ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER I don't really read 'business books,' and I didn't think 'The Paradox of Choice&... BARRY SCHWARTZ MUHAMMAD ALI I don't call myself a very good Christian, but I think I know one when I see one, and I also thi... MADISON SMARTT BELL I'm kind of a perfectionist about my songwriting. If I don't mean it, I don't think it&#... CARLENE CARTER B. B. KING I don't think I've ever laid out a batch of songs that pick myself apart the way that these ... RICHARD MARX I guess I've never been introduced properly to Pink Floyd. I know they're great, don't g... PHIL ANSELMO I don't do filler songs. I don't get them. They don't make any sense to me. Why would I ... BETTY WHO I don't think any studio - it was a long shot at the time - but I don't think any studio in ... CALLIE KHOURI PAULA DEEN REESE WITHERSPOON KENNETH LAY GEORGE HARRISON DAVE EGGERS You have record companies that sign acts that they think are great, and then they never do anything.... JASON ALDEAN I don't think I was a good model. I think I was born to emote and act. I would walk down the ram... ANUSHKA SHARMA I really don't think plastic surgery is a good idea. People who've had it done don't loo... ELIZA DOOLITTLE ELLIE GOULDING I've written songs before, and I don't want to share them with anybody. It's really pers... JEREMY JORDAN There's always that stigma of, 'Women shouldn't box,' or stereotypes of what a femal... MANDY BUJOLD I hope the fans have enjoyed listening as much as I've enjoyed doing the games. I don't ever... BOB UECKER I love words. They're fun. I don't think any word can just be filler. There's no room fo... KACEY MUSGRAVES ACTION BRONSON HUGH LAURIE I feel like sometimes, when I'm singing a song like 'Moment of Forever,' that it goes bo... KRIS KRISTOFFERSON YUNA I'm definitely gonna do another solo record at some point. 'Flamingo' wasn't just me... BRANDON FLOWERS I don't really have any regrets because if I choose not to do something there is usually a very ... ANDREW LINCOLN LEONARDO DICAPRIO WALTER MOSLEY AL FRANKEN LARRY KING The rule of improvisation I took to heart was, 'Don't think.' I tend to over-think thing... KATE MICUCCI MARTIN FREEMAN You know, last season I didn't do anything on the show, so I was frustrated. I mean, don't g... LORRAINE BRACCO I don't think I'd be a very good talk show host. I mean, I'm very talkative but I don... EMMA ROBERTS JERRY HALL I don't think I've ever had a bad Valentine's Day, I mean... c'mon, y'all know I... PRINCE ROYCE I think I don't really have any expectations; I don't look at the season as a whole - I look... CASEY STONER We're confronted with great darkness as a species right now as spiritual creatures on this plane... BRUCE COCKBURN BO DEREK GEORGE LUCAS I'll meet listeners who tell me what a great voice I have. But I don't have a great voice fo... IRA GLASS People don't listen to one radio station. On iTunes you can mix different worlds and bring count... NATASHA BEDINGFIELD I've been semi-successful. I've done all right but I'm not the player I was. Who do I th... RONNIE O'SULLIVAN MARC JACOBS GRANT HILL Coming from a little suburban town, I wasn't a hip city kid. I was quite the opposite, really. S... PAUL WELLER CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS BAT FOR LASHES I've always avoided publicity. I've never been good copy at any stage of my life. I don'... CHUCK NOLL But I don't think I've grown up to be a damaged adult. VANESSA MAE
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to the least powerful in our society. SENATOR PAUL SIMON SIMON SINEK Always the journey, never the destination. SIMON RATTLE The majority of my work is about preparation. TARYN SIMON I do seem to try to make things harder and harder for myself. In some perverse way, obstacles intere... TARYN SIMON My work is drawn to the political but avoids an agenda. There is no inherent critique or support. TARYN SIMON In my work, I construct texts and images. Between those two points the blur occurs. Each is altered ... TARYN SIMON I'm interested in the murky areas where there are no clear answers - or sometimes multiple answe... TARYN SIMON With 'The Simpsons,' people didn't know what they were gonna see. They didn't have a... SAM SIMON I'd rather be nauseous than tired, I think. SAM SIMON I'm supporting the charities that I supported during my lifetime, and I want to continue to do t... SAM SIMON 'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thoug... SAM SIMON I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work. SAM SIMON One of the things about animal rights, which is not the only thing that I care about in this world, ... SAM SIMON The truth is, I have more money than I'm interested in spending. Everyone in my family is taken ... SAM SIMON Work made me crazy. I was tough to get along with. SAM SIMON I don't believe in miracles. SAM SIMON I am a big PETA supporter, and their East Coast headquarters is the Sam Simon building, and their We... SAM SIMON A lot of charities spend a million dollars on a fundraiser to make $15,000. It's a social swirl.... SAM SIMON I want to do whatever I can to survive. SAM SIMON I don't think the spirit of Hollywood is such a spirit of generosity. I think people really begr... SAM SIMON Veganism is an answer for almost every problem facing the world in terms of hunger and climate chang... SAM SIMON The sort of lifetime achievement stuff that I'm getting now is kind of like Tom Sawyer's fun... SAM SIMON There are certain times you realize you've got too much money. One was when I started getting bi... SAM SIMON When people make donations to non profits, they want to know that their money goes to good use. SAM SIMON Boxing should probably be banned. But until then, I'm a big fan. SAM SIMON Through PETA, we rescue animals in roadside zoos and circuses. They are some of the most abused anim... SAM SIMON SIMON SINEK SIMON SINEK SIMON SINEK SIMON SINEK SIMON SINEK SIMON SINEK If I said to most of the people who auditioned, 'Good job, awesome, well done,' it would hav... SIMON COWELL SIMON SINEK SIMON SINEK SIMON SINEK SIMON SINEK SIMON HOGGART Learning music is a birthright. And you have to start young. SIMON RATTLE SIMON HOGGART He always describes his characters' voices and their physique so brilliantly. As people have sai... SIMON CALLOW HERBERT SIMON SIMON MAINWARING SIMON SINEK I can't read a computer screen and never use a calculator. It's all in my head and by hand. SIMON REUBEN I'm a happy camper when I'm doing both: writing and art every day, along with a dose of read... MARGE SIMON SIMON HOGGART SIMON HOGGART SIMON MAINWARING Every time I sat in a chemistry lesson, I thought, 'What am I doing this for? I don't ever w... SIMON COWELL What do we do after? Build a transfer station? Direct haul? And what will the form be? Contract with... ALAN SIMON If we fill to capacity we don't have to do a tax or bond to cover the rest. ALAN SIMON We're taking in less [household] trash and have more capacity. And capacity equals money. ALAN SIMON It's pretty much a lull in the action. We're looking forward to the next few years. ALAN SIMON SIMON MAINWARING If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then t... SIMON RATTLE As a child growing up in a grey-skied Yorkshire village, I would occasionally happen upon a Bollywoo... SIMON BEAUFOY Whether they run a record company or a grocery store, every boss will tell you you're in big tro... SIMON COWELL Don't borrow someone else's spectacles to view yourself with. SIMON TRAVAGLIA I work out three or four times a week, I have Botox, take tons of vitamins and vitamin infusions - i... SIMON COWELL I've had Botox, but then again pretty much everyone I know has. To me, Botox is no more unusual ... SIMON COWELL I get paid very well and am happy with what I make, but I'm not in the super-rich bracket. I sho... SIMON BIRD SIMON HOGGART SIMON SINEK SIMON MAINWARING SIMON MAINWARING The golden age is before us, not behind us. ST. SIMON NEIL SIMON Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow,
We will stand by each other, however it blow. SIMON DACH SIMON SINEK There should be a readiness, on our part, to investigate with candor to follow the truth wherever it... SIMON GREENLEAF In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our reli... SIMON GREENLEAF SIMON MORDEN SIMON MASHALLA SIMON SINEK TED SIMON SIMON HOGGART NEIL SIMON SIMON HOGGART TED SIMON JOHN SIMON SIMON SCHAMA JOHN SIMON HERBERT SIMON SIMON WIESENTHAL NEIL SIMON SIMON FORMAN SIMON FORMAN ELLEN SIMON Get up and dance, get up and smile, get up and drink to the days that are gone in the shortest while... SIMON FOWLER SIMON CAMERON SIMON MAINWARING SIMON MAINWARING DAVID SIMON SIMON HOGGART DAVID SIMON DAVID SIMON HERBERT SIMON SIMON SINEK For the music business, social networking is brilliant. Just when you think it's doom and gloom ... SIMON COWELL The whole process of being one of the 10 finalists for the 'Vogue' Fashion Fund award has to... SIMON SPURR It's interesting in American culture. We like to build people up and then push them off the pede... SIMON REX American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones. SIMON PEGG There are actually quite high profile British TV star cameos in it that you probably wouldn't ev... SIMON PEGG SIMON SINEK SIMON MAINWARING SIMON SCHAMA SIMON NEWCOMB SIMON SINEK CARLY SIMON SIMON MAINWARING SIMON SINEK SIMON HELBERG SIMON NEWCOMB CARLY SIMON SIMON MAINWARING SIMON MAINWARING SIMON MAINWARING SIMON MAINWARING SIMON MAINWARING SIMON MAINWARING SIMON MAINWARING SIMON MAINWARING SIMON MAINWARING SIMON MAINWARING SIMON MAINWARING
I think I've got to go back to 'Someone to Watch Over Me.' I think it's a perfectly ... 
I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all t... 
I don't think Flo Rida gets on just any song. If you look at the songs he has done - even The Sa... 
I was once kissed on the lips by a giraffe, and I don't think I've ever got over it. 
I don't know what people who I've never met think about me. Some have written horrible thing... 
I'm not a fan of musicals at all, but I do think 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' is a v... 
I've been asked over the years to compile a list of desert-island discs. I couldn't do that.... 
I think working with Johnny Depp was very intimidating. It was my fault though. I mean he's a to... 
I have no desire to be a centenarian. I think 90 is a great time. You've had a good innings. You... 
I don't think I've ever actually written from inspiration, actually had a song just go, '... 
I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel. 
I don't think I've had a very interesting life, and I feel that is a great liberation. That ... 
I was very lucky because Tim Burton really gave me a career. I don't think Hollywood would'v... 
My stories have a deep spiritual core because I have a deep desire to understand things of the spiri... 
I don't think the Beatles were that good. I think they're fine, you know. Ringo's got th... 
I don't think you ever get tired of the well-written, well-crafted songs. 
I don't think I could have written what I did any earlier. 
The knighthood I received was a fantastic honour but it's not something I've ever used and I... 
I just think they're really insecure about themselves sometimes. I know all the girls, but we al... 
I haven't scoured Dixie out of my voice. But I don't think that the books that I have writte... 
Making a record? You've got to have the song, then you create a record. I think it's the sam... 
I'm a composer, and therefore I know when I've written a good tune. When you've written ... 
At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don&... 
I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always o... 
I am proud to be a Southerner. I think Southern hospitality is very... I don't think it's ju... 
I don't think I realised how stressed I was, being a single parent. It was really, really stress... 
Am I a fool? I don't think I'm a fool. But I think I sure was fooled. 
I think it was John who really urged me to play sitar on 'Norwegian Wood,' which was the fir... 
I've purposely stayed away from reading much about postmodern theory, and most everything I have... 
Ever since I've been young I've been fascinated by the human body. I've written songs ab... 
You can make a hit song in 15 minutes. I don't know about someone else's song, but songs tha... 
I never went to drama school, I don't have any certificates saying: 'He's a qualified ac... 
I was truly honored to work with legendary DJ and producer DJ Premier. I still can't believe I h... 
Don't think for a moment that I'm really like any of the characters I've played. I'm... 
I've written a lot of really good books. Now we'll see if I can write any more good books. I... 
You know, Lincoln was funny. I don't think F.D.R. was very funny. But Lincoln was funny. Lincoln... 
I don't wish anybody ill, I really don't. I've got a lot of faults, but I was never jeal... 
I was on record before I did 'The Hobbit,' saying I don't care at all about 3D. And I su... 
'Wild Horses' is my favourite Stones song. It's so beautiful. I don't mind that it w... 
It's been very nice. I haven't gotten out too much because we've been working a lot but ... 
Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer. 
Awkwardness gives me great comfort. I've never been cool, but I've felt cool. I've been ... 
I like to think of myself as a pretty good athlete, I don't think I'm a great sprinter, but ... 
Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don&#... 
I don't think music is the first thing I turn to. For me, I think visual art is more the thing. ... 
All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest. 
All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest. 
I'm not in it for the money. I like music. I love to write music. I can't imagine myself not... 
There is no decision that we can make that doesn't come with some sort of balance or sacrifice. 
No matter when or where, always bring your 'A' game, because you never know when it will ope... 
Directions are instructions given to explain how. Direction is a vision offered to explain why. 
Life was so much simpler in pre-video days when everyone refused invitations because the 'Forsyt... 
One of the pleasures of staying with friends is that you get to browse their shelves. I always arriv... 
The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinning... 
Too many brands treat social media as a one way, broadcast channel, rather than a two-way dialogue t... 
Most successful American politicians look well-fed on endorsements, campaign contributions and chick... 
The leverage and influence social media gives citizens are rapidly spreading into the business world... 
The most potentially transformative impact of social media is its ability to encourage brands to mar... 
Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count. 
People like us, we think differently, don't we? We are different. We do all the things that others d... 
Oga. Watu hawaogi ndiyo maana wachafu. Kuoga ni lazima kutumia maji. Ukitaka kuoga neno, tumia maji;... 
There are in me the seeds from which, if necessary, the universe could be constructed. In me somewhe... 
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant. 
Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct ... 
Some years ago, writing about stage adaptations of fiction, I noted: 
For your benefit, learn from our tragedy. It is not a written law that the next victims must be Jews... 
It is a comfort to the unfortunate to have companions in woe.
[Lat., Solamen miseris socios habuis... 
Better your room than your company. 
Champagne Wishes and Caviar Dreams. 
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought. 
Albert Camus, a great humanist and existentialist voice, pointed out that to commit to a just cause ... 
I did an audiobook for 'Rough Crossings,' which I thought was one of the best books I had pu... 
As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another p... 
You're lucky you had that when you were 20. I sure didn't. I was overweight, and I had acne. 
Playing piano well is one thing, but attempting to play at concert level accompanying Meryl Streep w... 
Astronomers are greatly disappointed when, having traveled halfway around the world to see an eclips...