American - Musician | October 13, 1941 -
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.
Paul Simon
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A man sees what he wants to see, And disregards the rest.
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Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?
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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.
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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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Without Arthur's voice, I never would have enjoyed that success.
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When we came into the studio I became more and more me, making the tracks and choosing the musicians, partly because a great deal of the time during Bridge, Artie wasn't there.
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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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When I began making my own albums, the songs became funkier. They were more about the streets.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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