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When I Look Back At All The Crap I Learned In High School, It's A Wonder I Can Think At All.

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When I Look Back At All The Crap I Learned In High School, It's A Wonder I Can Think At All.

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I Really Don't Know What Exactly All The Songs Mean. Sometimes Other People Have Meanings And When I Hear Them I Think, 'that's Really A Better Meaning Than I Thought, And Perfectly Valid, Given The Words That Exist.' So Part Of What Makes A Song Really Good Is That People Take In Different Meanings, And They Apply Them, And They Might Be More Powerful Than The Ones I'm Thinking.

She Said The Man In The Gabardine Suit Was A Spy I Said 'be Careful His Bowtie Is Really A Camera'

The Words Of The Prophets Are Written On The Subway Walls And Tenements Halls And Whispered In The Sounds Of Silence.

Words Of Wisdom

Music Is Forever; Music Should Grow And Mature With You, Following You Right On Up Until You Die.

I'm Going To Graceland, For Reasons I Cannot Explain. There's Some Part Of Me Wants To See Graceland. And I May Be Advised To Defend Every Love, Every Ending, Or Maybe There's No Obligations Now. Maybe I've A Reason To Believe We All Will Be Received In Graceland.

Time, Time, Time, See What's Become Of Me, While I Looked Around, For My Possibilities; I Was So Hard To Please

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.

Somewhere In A Burst Of Glory / Sound Becomes A Song.

Mrs. Robinson Is A Little Dated Now, But It Has Nothing To Do With Joe Dimaggio.

I Have My Books And My Poetry To Protect Me

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.

Kodachrome, It Gives Us Those Nice Bright Colors Gives Us The Greens Of Summers Makes You Think All The World's A Sunny Day, Oh Yeah! I Got A Nikon Camera, I Love To Take A Photograph So Momma, Don't Take My Kodachrome Away.

Believing I Had Supernatural Powers, I Slammed Into A Brick Wall.

So I'll Continue To Continue To Pretend My Life Will Never End, And Flowers Never Bend With The Rainfall.

How Much Can You Do With Two Voices? You Can Sing Thirds Or You Can Sing Fifths Or You Can Do A Background Harmony.

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.

Every Generation Throws A Hero Up The Pop Charts.

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 Don't Consider Myself To Be A Major Talent, So The Only Solace I Can Take Is To Hope I'm Growing.

Just Slip Out The Back, Jack, Make A New Plan, Stan, You Don't Need To Be Coy, Roy, Just Get Yourself Free. Hop On The Bus, Gus, You Don't Need To Discuss Much, Just Drop Off The Key, Lee, And Get Yourself Free.

Two Times Two Is Twenty-two, Four Times Four Is Forty-four. When Numbers Get Serious, They Leave A Mark On Your Door.

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 Hits Were. I Never Thought That 'loves Me Like A Rock' Was Going To Be A Hit, Or 'mother And Child Reunion,' Or '50 Ways To Leave Your Lover.' They Didn't Sound Like What The Hits Sounded Like At The Time. Radio Was More Open To Things That Weren't Exactly What Every Other Hit Was.

Maybe I Think Too Much For My Own Good.

I Want To Rid My Heart Of Envy, And Cleanse My Soul Of Rage Before I'm Through.

Anybody Can Do Bad Work, But Not Everybody Does Good Work.

I've Got Nothing To Do Today But Smile.

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.

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.

Time It Was And What A Time It Was, It Was A Time Of Innocence A Time Of Confidences Long Ago It Must Be I Have A Photograph Preserve Your Memories They're All That's Left You

I Don't Very Often Think I've Done A Good Job. I Don't Like The Majority Of What I Do. I Shouldn't Say I Don't Like It, But I'm Not Satisfied With Almost Everything That I Do.

All God Requires From Us Is To Enjoy Life And Love. That's The Whole Point.

We Were Always Able To Sing And Blend Well Together; That's Our Gift. But Aside From That, We're Really Two Different Guys.

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.

Serious Numbers Will Speak To Us Always.

There Are Lots Of Really Good Guitarists, But They Play With The Same Pedals That Everybody Else Does. Everybody Buys The Same Pedals, So The Sounds Tend To Be The Same. I Am Looking For Different Ways Of Doing That Without Having To Spend Days And Weeks And Months Fooling Around With Pedals, Which I Don't Enjoy.

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.

I've Got A Reason To Believe We All Be Received In Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee.

Elvis Was The Reason I Picked Up The Guitar.

I Always Get Very Calm With Baseball.

I Don't Like Fashion. It's Very Heartless.

As Soon As Your Mind Knows That It's On And It's Supposed To Produce Some Lines, Either It Doesn't Or It Produces Things That Are Very Predictable. And That's Why I Say I'm Not Interested In Writing Something That I Thought About. I'm Interested In Discovering Where My Mind Wants To Go, Or What Object It Wants To Pick Up.

Take Me. I'm An Ordinary Player In The Key Of C. And My Will Was Broken By My Pride And My Vanity. Who's Gonna Love You When You're Looks Are Gone? God Will. Like He Waters The Flowers On Your Window Sill.

The Phrasing Didn't Work As Well.

When I Was 15, I Made A Solo Record. It Made Artie Very Unhappy. He Looked Upon It As Something Of A Betrayal.

The Death Penalty Is Reserved For People Who Do Not

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.

There Must Be 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover.

People Ask How I Feel About Getting Old. I Tell Them I Have The Same Question. I'm Learning As I Go.

When I Look Back At All The Crap I Learned In High School, It's A Wonder I Can Think At All.

Every Time The Industry Gets Powerful, And Corporate Thinking Dominates What The Music Is, Then The Music Really Pales.

It's Actually Very Difficult To Make Something Both Simple And Good.

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.

Aches And Pains

Philip Larkin Didn't Write For Several Years Before His Life Ended. And When He Was Asked Why He Didn't Write, He Said The Muse Deserted Him. And When I Read That, It Really Had A Profound Effect Upon Me, Sort Of Scared Me. So That's Why I Think I Have No Right To Assume That Some Thought Is Going To Come... But I Think, In My Imagination, If It Is It, There Will Probably Be Something Else I'm Interested In.

Much Of Songwriting Is Simply A Mystery.

You Want To Be A Writer, Don't Know How Or When? Find A Quiet Place, Use A Humble Pen.

To Get The Stuff Out Of You, Especially If What You're Dealing With Is Yourself, Requires You To Open Up And Touch Tender Spots. You Have To Be Anesthetized A Little Bit.

I Met My Old Lover On The Street Last Night, She Seemed Glad To See Me.

I Don't Feel Any Pressure From Fans. But I'm Always In Some Kind Of State Of Emotional Turmoil. I Would Not Describe Myself As Happy-go-lucky. That's Not To Say That I'm Not Happy.

You Have Underestimated My Power, As You Will Shortly Discover.

Don't Want To End Up A Cartoon In A Cartoon Grave Yard.

I Sort Of Recognize It, As Opposed To Shaping It. Oh, That's A Good Idea, That's A Good Line. I Wonder Where I Can Use That. And When You Get Into A Rhyme Group Like 'not,' You Got A Lot Of Rhymes, You Got A Lot Of Choices. The More You Do It, The Luckier You Get.

And You Read Your Emily Dickinson, And I My Robert Frost. And We Note Our Place With Bookmarkers That Measure What Weve Lost.

Couple In The Next Room Bound To Win A Prize, They've Been Going At It All Night Long.

The Leaves That Are Green Turn To Brown. And They Wither With The Wind. And They Crumble In Your Hand.

I Won't Disturb The Slumber Of Feelings That Have Died. If I Never Loved I Never Would Have Cried...i Am A Rock.

Improvisation Is Too Good To Leave To Chance.

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 Get Wiped Out.

I Have My Books And My Poetry To Protect Me; I Am Shielded In My Armor, Hiding In My Room, Safe Within My Womb. I Touch No One And No One Touches Me. I Am A Rock, I Am An Island.

I Don't Think That Simon And Garfunkel As A Live Act Compares To Simon And Garfunkel As A Studio Act.

The Wisdom Is Old, The Koran Is Old, The Bible Is Old. Disagreements? Work 'em Out.

I'm Laying Out My Winter Clothes And Wishing I Was Gone, Going Home, Where The New York City Winters Aren't Bleedin' Me.

Someone Could Walk Into This Room And Say Your Life Is On Fire.

Then She Kissed Me And I Realized She Probably Was Right, There Must Be Fifty Ways To Leave Your Lover.

Nor Is It Strange That After Changes Upon Changes, We Are More Or Less The Same

Faith Is An Island In The Setting Sun, But Proof Is The Bottom Line For Everyone.

Big Box Just Wasn't Our Strength. We Are A Men's And Boy's Specialty Store Focused On Providing High Quality Clothing With Custom Tailoring. Our Customer Is King. When We Had Seven Stores, Communication Between The Stores And With Our Customers Became More Disconnected. We Started To Lose That Great Family 'camaraderie' That Is Essentially The Key To Our Success.

The Dialogue Between What's Going On In The World And What's Going On Internally Seems To Be A Natural Thing - Well, It's Natural To Me, Anyway, To Have These Thoughts.

No One Dare Disturb The Sound Of Silence...

Some People Never Say The Words ‘i Love You’, For Like A Child They’re Longing To Be Told.

Blessed Are The Sat Upon, Spat Upon, Ratted On.

Breakdowns Come, And Breakdowns Go.

It's Outrageous To Line Your Pockets Off The Misery Of The Poor; It's Outrageous, The Crimes Some Human Beings Must Endure.

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.

It Was Easier Than Explaining Dimaggio's Use As A Metaphor.

Far Above The Golden Clouds, The Darkness Vibrates. The Earth Is Blue. And Everything About It Is A Love Song. Everything About It.

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.

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.

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.

By The Time I Was 12 Or 13, I Felt That I Was Special, Because I Could Play The Guitar And Write Songs.

These Are The Days Of Miracle And Wonder.

I See A Correlation Between Short Stories And Songs, Because Of Their Length And For What They're Meant To Evoke. Combine Certain Words With Melodies And It All Becomes Very Moving.

In The Clearing Stands The Boxer, And A Fighter By His Trade. And He Carries A Reminder Of Every Glove That Laid Him Down... Or Cut Him Till He Cried Out In His Anger And His Shame "i Am Leaving! I Am Leaving" But The Fighter Still Remains.

The Only Time That Love Is An Easy Game Is When Two Other People Are Playing It.

I Don't Believe What The Papers Are Saying They're Just Out To Capture My Dime, Exaggerating This, Exaggerating That.

The Degree Of Customization Possible Through Your Preferences Screens Is Awesome.

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.

Who Am I To Blow Against The Wind?

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.

Justice Stevens Is One Of Those Who Are Most Sensitive To The Least Powerful In Our Society.

Life I Love You, All Is Groovy.

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.

I Regret The Ending Of Our Friendship And Hope One Day Before We Die, We'll Make Peace With Each Other . . . No Rush.

I'm More Interested In What I Discover Than What I Invent.

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.

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 Just Said, You Know, This Is A Great Track But This Lyric, I Don't Believe It. It Sounds Like I'm Trying To Say Something, Instead Of It Naturally Coming Out Of Me, Like I Was Saying Something That I Already Knew. Anyway, I Can't Remember What It Was. And Either I Threw It All Out Or I Threw 90 Percent Of It Out, And Kept A Line Or Two. That's Happened A Couple Of Times To Me. Not Too Often, But A Couple Of Times. Very Aggravating When It Does Happen.

Jay Ashby Is Simply A Great Musician!

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 Is That You're Doing. And Then You Add Another Piece Next To That Piece, And Wait To See If Some Kind Of Pattern Or Something Interesting Starts To Grow, And Then You Cultivate It.

I Don't Really Know Why An Idea Comes To Me. But All Of A Sudden, An Idea Comes And From Experience I Can Intuit What Something Means When An Interesting Line Pops Up. Or I Can Intuit What An Interesting Choice Might Be. And I Can Try A Couple Of Different Choices, And See Which One Feels Right, And Then Continue The Song To See Where It Goes.

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.

People Often Called Us Perfectionists, But We Were Not Looking For Perfection. We Were Looking For Some Kind Of Magic In The Music.

The Risk Of Failure Is Part Of The Fun Of What I Do.

We've Survived By Believing Our Life Is Going To Get Better.

A Man Walks Down The Street. It's A Street In A Strange World. Maybe It's The Third World. Maybe It's His First Time Around. He Doesn't Speak The Language. He Holds No Currency. He Is A Foreign Man. He Is Surrounded By The Sound, Sound Of Cattle In The Marketplace, Scatterlings And Orphanages. He Looks Around, Around He Sees Angels In The Architecture Spinning In Infinity And He Says, "amen" And "hallelujah!

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.

And I Must Be What I Must Be And Face Tomorrow.

All I've Got To Do Today Is Smile.

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?

You Know, Life Is What You Make Of It- So Beautiful Or So What.

Artie Travels All The Time. The Rehearsals Were Just Miserable. Artie And I Fought All The Time. He Didn't Want To Do The Show With My Band; He Just Wanted Me On Acoustic Guitar.

...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.

I Know A Man He Came From My Home Town He Wore His Passion For His Woman Like A Thorny Crown He Said "dolores I Live In Fear My Love For You's So Overpowering I'm Afraid That I Will Disappear

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.

...everything Looks Worse In Black And White.

Black And White

The Words Come. Usually, It's A Long Time Before They Come. And Then When They Start To Come, It Doesn't Take So Long For It To Be Finished. It Takes A Long Time To Begin. And Then It Sort Of Gets Finished.

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 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.

These Are The Days Of Lasers In The Jungle, Staccato Signals Of Constant Information.

The Trick Is, As I Know It, Is To Care Like Hell And Not Give A Damn At The Same Time.

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

When I Began Making My Own Albums, The Songs Became Funkier. They Were More About The Streets.

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 Harmonium?" Or "what Is That Ringing Sound That Occurs Here?" The Questions Are Always "what Does That Song Mean?" Or "what Were You Trying To Say Here?"

Losing Love Is Like A Window In Your Heart.

We Work Our Jobs, Collect Our Pay, Believe Were Gliding Down The Highway, When In Fact We're Slip Sliding Away.

I Stepped Outside To Smoke A J And When I Came Back To The Room, Everybody Just Seemed To Move.

...music Is Sometimes The Only Benign Avenue Of Communication Between Antagonists.

Cecilia Was Made In A Living Room On A Sony. It Was Like A Little Piece Of Magical Fluff, Bur It Works. El Condor Pasa A Los Incas Record That I Love. Bridge Is A Very Strong Melodic Song.

Where Have You Gone, Joe Dimaggio? A Nation Turns Its Lonely Eyes To You.

My Whole Artistic Life Has Always Been About Change, Change, Change, Move On, Move On. It's The Only Thing I Find Interesting.

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?

I Would Not Be Convicted By A Jury Of My Peers, Still Crazy After All These Years.

It Was The Year Of The Beatles, It Was The Year Of The Stones, It Was 1964.

And She Said 'losing Love Is Like A Window In Your Heart, Everybody Sees You're Blown Apart, Everybody Feels The Wind Blow.'

I Rate Each Album As Better Than The Last One. That's How I See It.

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.

Was A Sunny Day, Not A Cloud In The Sky. Not A Negative Word Was Heard.

I Think My Hight Had The Most Significant Single Effect On My Existence, Aside From My Brain. In Fact, It's Part Of An Inferior-superior Syndrome. I Think I Have An Inferior Brain And An Inferior Stature, If You Really Want To Get Brutal About It.

People Talking Without Speaking,/ People Listening Without Hearing...sounds Of Silence.

Thought Provoking

Hide It In A Hiding Place Where No One Ever Goes Put It In Your Pantry With Your Cupcakes

Although I Was Able To Study Music With Teachers, I Never Studied Lyric Writing. I Read Poetry, And I Read Other Lyricists. But They Were Never Writing In The Style Or The Form That I Was Interested In.

The Record Company Stay Out Of My Way. Whenever The Record Is Finished, They Take It.

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.

Medicine Is Magical And Magical Is Art, The Boy In The Bubble, And The Baby With The Baboon Heart.

The Course Of A Lifetime Runs/over And Over Again

The Public Hungers To See Talented Young People Kill Themselves.

I Get The News I Need On The Weather Report And I Have Nothing To Do Today But Smile

A Lot Of Talent Is A Gift, But A Lot Is Also Luck. I'm Very Aware Of That. I Was Born In The Right Place At The Right Time. I Am Also Blessed Because I've Never Been A Sex Symbol. I'm Spared The Embarrassment Of Acting Young.

Mama, Don't Take My Kodachrome Away.

If You'll Be My Body Guard, I Can Be Your Long Lost Pal.

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 One Of Us Should Have His Way.

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.

Lost Friendship

There Is A Moment, A Chip In Time, When Leaving Home Is The Lesser Crime.

A Songwriter's Supreme Challenge Is Being Complex And Simple At The Same Time

My Life So Common It Disappears And Sometimes Even Music Cannot Substitute For Tears.

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

The Thought That Life Could Be Better Is Woven Indelibly Into Our Hearts And Our Brains.

Facts Can Be Turned Into Art If One Is Artful Enough.

Someone Told Me It's All Happening At The Zoo.

I Don't Really Like To Write At A Desk. I Like To Write When Driving In A Car. ... Once You're Working On It, You're Working On It All The Time, And Sometimes Stuff'll Come In The Middle Of The Night, In A Dream Or Something. Your Mind Is Working On It All The Time.

How Can You Live In The Northeast?

Who's Gonna Love You When Your Looks Are Gone?

One Man's Ceiling Is Another Man's Floor.

Lord, I Am A Surgeon And Music Is My Knife. It Cuts Away My Sorrow And Purifies My Life.

I Think Bridge Over Troubled Water Was A Very Good Song. Artie Sang It Beautifully. The Boxer Was A Really Nice Record. But I Don't Think I've Written Any Great Songs.

I Don't Know What I'm Going To Write When I Begin To Write. It Feels Like You Are Walking Down A Path, But You Can't See Around The Bend And You Don't Know Where You Are Going To Go, Which Is Fun.

I Am Just A Poor Boy, Though My Story's Seldom Told, And I Have Squandered My Resistance, For A Pocket Full Of Mumbles, Such Are Promises. All Lies In Jest, Still A Man Hears What He Wants To Hear And Disregards The Rest...la-la-la-la-la-la-la-lala-la-la-la-la...

The More I Get To Thinking, The Less I Tend To Laugh.

I Didn't Get How Big It Was Until I Went Home, Turned On The Television And Saw It On All The News, And Later That Night On The Front Pages Of All The Newspapers. Then I Got It.

The Problem Is All Inside Your Head, She Said To Me The Answer Is Easy If You Take It Logically I'd Like To Help You In Your Struggle To Be Free There Must Be Fifty Ways To Leave Your Lover.

Most Of The Time, The Songs Have Jokes In Them, Little Sarcastic Things, Or Purposely Kitsch Or Something. So That's Going Along With A Story, Like I Do In Life, Just Talking To Myself And Making Fun Of Stuff And Laughing At Stuff That's Serious. And Sometimes It's A Good Idea To Put The Laughing Into The Songs. Sometimes It's Not. Sometimes It's All Right Just To Be Serious. But Most Of The Songs Have Some Kind Of Joke In Them.

And A Rock Feels No Pain; And An Island Never Cries.

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.

Why Am I So Soft In The Middle When The Rest Of My Life Is So Hard?

All Lies And Jests, Still A Man Hears What He Wants To Hear And Disregards The Rest.

I Like Them All. They're All Pictures Of Me When I Wrote Them. I Have No Favorite Songs.

Given All The Facts That I'm Young And I'm In Good Health And I'm Famous - That I Have Talent, I Have Money - Given All These Facts, I Want To Know Why I'm So Unhappy.

Instead Of Thinking In Terms Of Chords, I Think Of Voice-leading; That Is, Melody Line And Bass Line, And Where The Bass Line Goes. If You Do That, You'll Have The Right Chord. [these Voices] Will Give You Some Alternatives, And You Can Play Those Different Alternatives To Hear Which One Suits Your Ear. Keep The Bass Line Moving So You Don't Stay In One Spot: If You Have An Interesting Bass Line And You Roll It Against The Melody, The Chords Are Going To Come Out Right.

Take Two Bodies And You Twirl Them Into One, Their Hearts And Their Bones, And They Won't Come Undone.

There's Something About The Sound Of A Train That's Very Romantic And Nostalgic And Hopeful.

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