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Listen to the sound of silence.

Listening Quotes

We’re living in a certain time, and we’re aware of it. And that’s part of what we’re aware of, along with our own personal aches and pains.

The dialogue between what’s going on in the world and what’s going on internally seems to be a natural thing – well, it’s natural to me, anyway, to have these thoughts.

I stepped outside to smoke a J and when I came back to the room, everybody just seemed to move.

It was easier than explaining DiMaggio’s use as a metaphor.

I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.

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.

I sort of recognize it, as opposed to shaping it. Oh, that’s a good idea, that’s a good line. I wonder where I can use that. And when you get into a rhyme group like ‘not,’ you got a lot of rhymes, you got a lot of choices. The more you do it, the luckier you get.

A songwriter’s supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time.

I see a correlation between short stories and songs, because of their length and for what they’re meant to evoke. Combine certain words with melodies and it all becomes very moving.

I don’t feel any pressure from fans. But I’m always in some kind of state of emotional turmoil. I would not describe myself as happy-go-lucky. That’s not to say that I’m not happy.

Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it’s pleasure, but you don’t get wiped out.

To get the stuff out of you, especially if what you’re dealing with is yourself, requires you to open up and touch tender spots. You have to be anesthetized a little bit.

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.

The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.

Cecilia was made in a living room on a Sony. It was like a little piece of magical fluff, bur it works. El Condor Pasa a Los Incas record that I love. Bridge is a very strong melodic song.

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

One of the things that upset me was some of the criticism leveled at Simon and Garfunkel. I always took exception to it, but actually I agree with a lot of it.

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

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

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.

The risk of failure is part of the fun of what I do.

I’m more interested in what I discover than what I invent.

By the time I was 12 or 13, I felt that I was special, because I could play the guitar and write songs.

How can you live in the Northeast?

Although I was able to study music with teachers, I never studied lyric writing. I read poetry, and I read other lyricists. But they were never writing in the style or the form that I was interested in.

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

Maybe I think too much for my own good.

Artie travels all the time. The rehearsals were just miserable. Artie and I fought all the time. He didn’t want to do the show with my band; he just wanted me on acoustic guitar.

The more I get to thinking, the less I tend to laugh.

The Wisdom is old, the Koran is old, the Bible is old. Disagreements? Work ’em out.

The public hungers to see talented young people kill themselves.

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.

When I was a young reporter, the great vice among journalists was whiskey. Today, it’s cynicism.

We’ve survived by believing our life is going to get better.

People ask how I feel about getting old. I tell them I have the same question. I’m learning as I go.

Justice Stevens is one of those who are most sensitive to the least powerful in our society.

I didn’t get how big it was until I went home, turned on the television and saw it on all the news, and later that night on the front pages of all the newspapers. Then I got it.

The words come. Usually, it’s a long time before they come. And then when they start to come, it doesn’t take so long for it to be finished. It takes a long time to begin. And then it sort of gets finished.

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.

Being an artist doesn’t mean that you’re a good artist. That was the bargain I first made with myself: I’d say, I’m an artist, but I’m not really very good.

Every time the industry gets powerful, and corporate thinking dominates what the music is, then the music really pales.

Anthony Heilbut has been a guide and a mentor to me. I know of no one who has the love and depth of knowledge of this extraordinary author.

My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It’s the only thing I find interesting.

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.

Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough.

A phenomenon occurs but because you’re in the middle of it, you just think it’s your life-until it’s over. And then you look back and say, What an unusual thing happened to me in the ’60s.

You know, life is what you make of it- so beautiful or so what.

How much can you do with two voices? You can sing thirds or you can sing fifths or you can do a background harmony.

I don’t very often think I’ve done a good job. I don’t like the majority of what I do. I shouldn’t say I don’t like it, but I’m not satisfied with almost everything that I do.

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