Paul Simon - Best Quotes

If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time you've created a special little thing and that's what I'm looking for because if you get pompous you lose everything.

Hope

I don't consider myself to be a major talent so the only solace I can take is to hope I'm growing.

Paul Simon

I don't consider myself to be a major talent so the only solace I can take is to hope I'm growing.

History

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.

Paul Simon

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.

Friendship

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.

Paul Simon

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.

Faith

Faith is an island in the setting sun But proof is the bottom line for everyone.

Paul Simon

Faith is an island in the setting sun But proof is the bottom line for everyone.

Death

As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.

Paul Simon

As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.

Hot Quotes

My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Any work that aspires however humbly to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

When thou art at Rome do as they do at Rome.

Rock isn't art it's the way ordinary people talk.

Tell me thy company and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art like album-cover design without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

Author: Paul Simon

Without Arthur's voice I never would have enjoyed that success.

There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.

My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.

Music is forever music should grow and mature with you following you right on up until you die.

If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time you've created a special little thing and that's what I'm looking for because if you get pompous you lose everything.

I don't consider myself to be a major talent so the only solace I can take is to hope I'm growing.

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 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.

Faith is an island in the setting sun But proof is the bottom line for everyone.

As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.