Paul Simon Quotes

“On Art Garfunkel - He makes Paul Simon look like LL Cool J.”
― Ian Gittins

“I always get very calm with baseball.”
― Paul Simon

“He didn't look angry. Stern, maybe. Impassive, definitely. Eventually, he raised his hand and turned away. Not just sort of away, but forty-five degrees away, like, I'm not looking at you anymore. I'm looking this totally different way now and so we're done.
Just above face level, his palm flat and perpendicular to the floor, like a stereotyped movie Native American going "How!" Or a traffic cop saying, "Stop!" Or maybe a guy signaling his uninvited biographer to keep his distance — which is understandable on a human level, but less so in the wake of fifty-plus years of public life. All that self-revelation in his music — in the hundreds of thousands of words of interviews he's given, talking about his wives; his lovers; his astonishingly screwed-up relationship with the friend/musical partner he will sometimes insist had no real impact on him at all, and then turn around and say that their lives have always been woven together; and his father; his creative blocks; his anxieties; his therapists; and more.
Still: Don't look at me.”
― Peter Ames Carlin, Homeward Bound: The Life of Paul Simon

“Paul Simon has an uncanny approach to song-writing. His lines are embellished in rich poetry, breathing the air of constancy in rhythms that pause in antiphons, towards eliciting responses from a listener’s merry heart. I should feel free to express my cupidity over his verse, as distributed in songs like THE BOXER and GRACELAND. He's one of the greatest songwriters ever.”
― Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu