"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."

-- Paul Simon

#Couple Quotes #Believe Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Part of the sin of Pride is a subtle but deep racism.”
“I have already exceeded the amount of work my head can bear.”
“I think my interest in risk is pretty high, a lot higher than I think a lot of other people who are just looking for something to kind of define themselves, give them a set of fingerprints, and certainly is better for the pocketbook. For me it's always about trying new things and wanting to explore something else and something new of myself and of actors I really like.”
“There should be a readiness, on our part, to investigate with candor to follow the truth wherever it may lead us, and to submit, without reserve or objection, to all the teachings of this religion, if it be found to be of divine origin.”

Source : Simon Greenleaf (1846). “An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists, by the Rules of Evidence Administered in Courts of Justice: With an Account of the Trial of Jesus”, p.21
“The truth is how you say it, and to be 'one's self' is the most shocking custom of all.”
“All art needs this visible world and will always need it. Quite simply because, being accessible to all, it is the key to all other worlds.”

Source : Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Jill Lloyd (2003). “Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: The Dresden and Berlin Years”
“Well I always wanted to be Dolly Parton when I was a little girl. I was obsessed with her.”
“My whole life I have been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted, until I discovered that my interruptions were my work.”

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