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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."

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"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."

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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

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"History develops, art stands still."

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"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."

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"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."

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"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."

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"Music heals all forms of misery."

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"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."

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"The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure."

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"The man can neither make, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels."

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"The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible."

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"I don't consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I'm growing."
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"Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die."
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"People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music."
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"I think I have a superior brain and an inferior stature, if you really want to get brutal about it."
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"When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal."
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