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The leaves that are green turn to brown. And they wither with the wind. And they crumble in your hand.
Take two bodies and you twirl them into one, their hearts and their bones, and they won't come undone.
Then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right, there must be fifty ways to leave your lover.
By the time I was 12 or 13, I felt that I was special, because I could play the guitar and write songs.
As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.
So I'll continue to continue to pretend my life will never end, and flowers never bend with the rainfall.
When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.
Time, time, time, see what's become of me, While I looked around, For my possibilities; I was so hard to please
We work our jobs, collect our pay, believe were gliding down the highway, when in fact we're slip sliding away.
I won't disturb the slumber of feelings that have died. If I never loved I never would have cried...I am a rock.
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 believe what the papers are saying They're just out to capture my dime, Exaggerating this, exaggerating that.
Two times two is twenty-two, four times four is forty-four. When numbers get serious, they leave a mark on your door.
I regret the ending of our friendship and hope one day before we die, we'll make peace with each other . . . No rush.
The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
Every time the industry gets powerful, and corporate thinking dominates what the music is, then the music really pales.
I'm laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone, Going home, where the new york city winters aren't bleedin' me.
We were always able to sing and blend well together; that's our gift. But aside from that, we're really two different guys.
It's outrageous to line your pockets off the misery of the poor; It's outrageous, the crimes some human beings must endure.
And she said 'Losing love is like a window in your heart, Everybody sees you're blown apart, Everybody feels the wind blow.'
She said a good day ain't got no rain She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed And I think of things that might have been
And you read your emily dickinson, And I my robert frost. And we note our place with bookmarkers That measure what weve lost.
There are two sorts of people in the world: Those who listen and those who are thinking about what they are going to say next.
My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It's the only thing I find interesting.
And so you see I have come to doubt -All that I once held as true ~ I stand alone without beliefs -The only truth I know is you
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.
People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.
Far above the golden clouds, the darkness vibrates. The earth is blue. And everything about it is a love song. Everything about it.
...what threatens us today in the world of computers and other invasions of privacy is not a national ID card but a number of other things.
Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.
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.
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.
When I first heard Elvis perform "Bridge Over Trouble Water" it was unbelivable,and I thought to myself, how the hell can I compete with that?
It's pointless to be critical of your stuff once it's done. I don't spend a lot of time agonising over it. It's of no importance once it's finished.
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.
My voice is my improvisational instrument, the melody instrument. The guitar is harmonic structure. I'm not a good enough guitarist to improvise on it.
A fundamental requirement, overriding any other for this job, is an understanding of deafness-what it is and how it affects the educational experience.
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 was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.
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.
I don't think [Dylan and the Beatles] influenced me a lot. I think it was inevitable; they were so powerful that you couldn't really escape the influence.
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.
They've got a wall in China, it's a thousand miles long. To keep out the foreigners, they made it strong. And I've got a wall around me, you can't even see.
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.
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.
I lived in an attached house. My father used to drive into the wrong driveway all the time. He'd say, Damn it, how do you tell one of these houses from another?
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.
Sail on silver girl Sail on by Your time has come to shine All your dreams are on their way See how they shine Oh, if you need a friend I'm sailing right behind.
I'm always going forward toward something, and that something is usually an album, because I like to record. I probably like to record more than I like to write.
Maybe the heart is part of the mist. And that's all that there is or could ever exist. Maybe and maybe and maybe some more. Maybe's the exit that I'm looking for.