Пол Саймон цитаты
Пол Саймон
Дата рождения: 13. Октябрь 1941
Пол Фредерик Саймон — американский рок-музыкант, поэт и композитор, обладатель трёх премий «Грэмми» в номинации «лучший альбом года» .
76-летний Саймон Пол объявил о прекращении своей концертной деятельности. Рок-музыкант намерен дать прощальный тур, который стартует в Ванкувере 16 мая 2018 года.
Подобные авторы
Милла Йовович15
американская актриса
Шеннон Лето42
американский рок-музыкант
Джим Джармуш15
американский кинорежиссёр и сценарист
Джонни Кэш11
американский музыкант
Джеймс Хэтфилд12
американский музыкант
Цитаты Пол Саймон
„We don't mean to mess things up,
But mess them up we do.“
— Paul Simon
Context: We don't mean to mess things up,
But mess them up we do.
And then it's "Oh, I'm sorry."
Here's a smiling photograph
Of love when it was new.
At a birthday party.
Make a wish and close your eyes:
Surprise, surprise, surprise.
Everything About It Is a Love Song
„And the sign said "The words of the prophets
Are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls
And whispered in the sound of silence"“
— Paul Simon
Context: And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said "The words of the prophets
Are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls
And whispered in the sound of silence"
The Sound of Silence
„I'm on your side
When times get rough
And friends just can't be found
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down.“
— Paul Simon
Context: When you're weary
Feeling small
When tears are in your eyes
I will dry them all
I'm on your side
When times get rough
And friends just can't be found
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will lay me down.
Bridge over Troubled Water
„God only knows
God makes his plan
The information's unavailable
To the mortal man.“
— Paul Simon
Context: God only knows
God makes his plan
The information's unavailable
To the mortal man.
We work our jobs
Collect our pay
Believe we're gliding down the highway
When in fact we're slip slidin' away.
Slip Slidin' Away
„No I would not give you false hope
On this strange and mournful day
But the mother and child reunion
Is only a motion away“
— Paul Simon
Context: No I would not give you false hope
On this strange and mournful day
But the mother and child reunion
Is only a motion away,
Oh, little darling of mine
I can't for the life of me
Remember a sadder day
I know they say let it be
But it just don't work out that way...
Mother and Child Reunion
„I am walking up the face of the mountain. Counting every step I climb.“
— Paul Simon
Context: I am walking up the face of the mountain. Counting every step I climb. Remembering the names of the constellations. Forgotten is a long, long time.
"That's Me"
„So you start with an impulse and go to what your ear likes.“
— Paul Simon
Context: I write from instinct, from inexplicable sparkle. I don't know why I'm writing what I'm writing. Usually, I sit and I let my hands wander on my guitar. And I sing anything. I play anything. And I wait till I come across a pleasing accident. Then I start to develop it. Once you take a piece of musical information, there are certain implications that it automatically contains — the implication of that phrase elongated, contracted, or inverted or in another time signature. So you start with an impulse and go to what your ear likes.
Interview with Tony Schwartz in Playboy (February 1984) p. 166
„She said, why don't we both just sleep on it tonight
And I believe, in the morning you'll begin to see the light“
— Paul Simon
Context: She said, why don't we both just sleep on it tonight
And I believe, in the morning you'll begin to see the light
And then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right
There must be fifty ways to leave your lover, fifty ways to leave your lover
50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
„I'm gonna watch you shine, gonna watch you grow.“
— Paul Simon
Context: I'm gonna watch you shine, gonna watch you grow.
Gonna paint a sign so you'll always know.
As long as one and one is two.
There could never be a father who loved
His daughter more than I love you.
Father and Daughter
„These are the days of miracle and wonder,
This is the long distance call“
— Paul Simon
Context: These are the days of miracle and wonder,
This is the long distance call,
The way the camera follows us in slo-mo,
The way we look to us all,
The way we look to a distant constellation
That's dying in a corner of the sky,
These are the days of miracle and wonder
And don't cry, baby, don't cry, don't cry.
The Boy In The Bubble
„I want to rid my heart of envy
And cleanse my soul of rage
Before I'm through.“
— Paul Simon
Context: Because you cannot walk with the holy,
If you're just a halfway decent man.
But I don't pretend that I'm a mastermind
With a genius marketing plan.I'm trying to tap into some wisdom,
Even a little drop would do.
I want to rid my heart of envy
And cleanse my soul of rage
Before I'm through.
Wartime Prayers
„I want a shot at redemption
Don’t want to end up a cartoon
In a cartoon graveyard.“
— Paul Simon
Context: A man walks down the street
He says why am I soft in the middle now
Why am I soft in the middle
The rest of my life is so hard
I need a photo opportunity
I want a shot at redemption
Don’t want to end up a cartoon
In a cartoon graveyard.
You Can Call Me Al
„Slip slidin' away
Slip slidin' away.“
— Paul Simon
Context: Slip slidin' away
Slip slidin' away.
You know the nearer your destination
The more you're slip slidin' away.
Slip Slidin' Away
