Top 150 Paul Simon Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I don’t like fashion. It’s very heartless.”

— Paul Simon

52. “I met my old lover on the street last night, she seemed glad to see me.”

— Paul Simon

53. “Maybe I think too much for my own good.”

— Paul Simon

54. “I met my old lover on the street last night. She seemed so glad to see me, I just smiled. Then we talked about some old times and we drank ourselves some beers, still crazy after all these years.”

— Paul Simon

55. “Medicine is magical and magical is art, the boy in the bubble, and the baby with the baboon heart.”

— Paul Simon

56. “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.”

— Paul Simon

57. “The only time that love is an easy game is when two other people are playing it.”

— Paul Simon

58. “Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.”

— Paul Simon

59. “Hide it in a hiding place where no one ever goes Put it in your pantry with your cupcakes.”

— Paul Simon

60. “As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won’t be put to death.”

— Paul Simon

61. “Was a sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. Not a negative word was heard.”

— Paul Simon

62. “Take two bodies and you twirl them into one, their hearts and their bones, and they won’t come undone.”

— Paul Simon

63. “You want to be a writer, don’t know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.”

— Paul Simon

64. “Then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right, there must be fifty ways to leave your lover.”

— Paul Simon

65. “Who’s gonna love you when your looks are gone?”

— Paul Simon

66. “The abstract music is just more interesting because it doesn’t really have anything to say, but if it is good, it creates thoughts and feelings, and I enjoy that. For me, once the music creates those thoughts and feelings, I begin to write a song about it.”

— Paul Simon

67. “These are the days of lasers in the jungle, staccato signals of constant information...”

— Paul Simon

68. “Every generation throws a hero up the pop charts.”

— Paul Simon

69. “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.”

— Paul Simon

70. “It’s actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.”

— Paul Simon

71. “I don’t think that Simon and Garfunkel as a live act compares to Simon and Garfunkel as a studio act.”

— Paul Simon

72. “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. It’s not at all in fashion.”

— Paul Simon

73. “You have underestimated my power, as you will shortly discover.”

— Paul Simon

74. “If you’ll be my body guard, I can be your long lost pal.”

— Paul Simon

75. “Jay Ashby is simply a great musician!”

— Paul Simon

76. “It’s very helpful to start with something that’s true. If you start with something that’s false, you’re always covering your tracks. Something simple and true, that has a lot of possibilities, is a nice way to begin.”

— Paul Simon

77. “The death penalty is reserved for people who do not.”

— Paul Simon

78. “Someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire.”

— Paul Simon

79. “Mrs. Robinson is a little dated now, but it has nothing to do with Joe DiMaggio.”

— Paul Simon

80. “Someone told me it’s all happening at the zoo.”

— Paul Simon

81. “People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.”

— Paul Simon

82. “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.”

— Paul Simon

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

— Paul Simon

84. “I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I’m through.”

— Paul Simon

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

— Paul Simon

86. “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.”

— Paul Simon

87. “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.”

— Paul Simon

88. “Couple in the next room bound to win a prize, they’ve been going at it all night long.”

— Paul Simon

89. “After all those years of automatic success, you don’t get nervous any more. It’s really necessary to be nervous and be a little bit frightened. It pumps the adrenalin into you and you really get down there and try.”

— Paul Simon

90. “I feel I should try to reveal. When you hit it right, you produce an emotional response in the listener that can be cathartic. When you’re wrong, you’re soppy, sentimental.”

— Paul Simon

91. “It’s outrageous to line your pockets off the misery of the poor; It’s outrageous, the crimes some human beings must endure...”

— Paul Simon

92. “I don’t consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I’m growing.”

— Paul Simon

93. “Elvis was the reason I picked up the guitar.”

— Paul Simon

94. “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.”

— Paul Simon

95. “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.”

— Paul Simon

96. “Serious numbers will speak to us always.”

— Paul Simon

97. “A fundamental requirement, overriding any other for this job, is an understanding of deafness-what it is and how it affects the educational experience.”

— Paul Simon

98. “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.”

— Paul Simon

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

— Paul Simon

100. “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.”

— Paul Simon