Occupation: Former United States Senator Birth: November 29, 1928 Death: December 9, 2003
A songwriter's supreme challenge is being complex and simple at the same time.
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 ….
The course of a lifetime runs/over and over again.
Improvisation is too good to leave to chance..
I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don't get sentimental. I think we're all afraid to reveal our hearts. ….
Most of the time, when I had hits as a soloist - maybe not so much with Simon & Garfunkel - I was surprised they were hits. I didn't know what the hi….
Then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right, there must be fifty ways to leave your lover..
I like working with sound; sound and rhythm. I like the abstract more than "What does that mean?" Nobody ever says to you, "Why did you use a harmoni….
...everything looks worse in black and white..
My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It's the only thing I find interesting..
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….
Two times two is twenty-two, four times four is forty-four. When numbers get serious, they leave a mark on your door..
Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone..
Poverty is not an act of God. It is the result of flawed policy, and that is a moral challenge..
I stepped outside to smoke a J and when I came back to the room, everybody just seemed to move..
How can you live in the Northeast?.
Much of songwriting is simply a mystery..
You sit and you let your fingers go to wherever they are going to go. You wait until you start to hear something, and you start to figure out what it….
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..
Time, time, time, see what's become of me, While I looked around, For my possibilities; I was so hard to please.
When I was a young reporter, the great vice among journalists was whiskey. Today, it's cynicism..