simon garfunkel quotes

New York, you got money on your mind
And my words won't make a dime's worth a difference, so here's to you New York

- as sung by Simon & Garfunkel "A Heart In New York"

It's a still life water color,
Of a now late afternoon,
As the sun shines through the curtained lae
And shadows wash the room.
And we sit and drink our coffee
Couched in our indifference,
Like shells upon the shore
You can hear the ocean roar
In the dangling conversation
And the superficial sighs,
The borders of our lives.
And you read your Emily Dickinson,
And I my Robert Frost,
And we note our place with bookmarkers
That measure what we've lost.
Like a poem poorly written
We are verses out of rhythm,
Couplets out of rhyme,
In syncopated time
And the dangled conversation
And the superficial sighs,
Are the borders of our lives.

- as sung by Simon & Garfunkel "The Dangling Conversation"

A winter's day
In a deep and dark December;
I am alone,
Gazing from my window to the streets below
On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow.
I am a rock,
I am an island.
I've built walls,
A fortress deep and mighty,
That none may penetrate.
I have no need of friendship; friendship causes pain.
It's laughter and it's loving I disdain.
I am a rock,
I am an island.

- as sung by Simon & Garfunkel "I Am a Rock"

And the pattern still remains
On the wall where darkness fell,
And it's fitting that it should,
For in darkness I must dwell.
Like the color of my skin,
Or the day that I grow old,
My life is made of patterns
That can scarcely be controlled.

- as sung by Simon & Garfunkel "Patterns"

I been Norman Mailered, Maxwell Taylored.
I been John O'Hara'd, McNamara'd.
I been Rolling Stoned and Beatled till I'm blind.
I been Ayn Randed, nearly branded
Communist, 'cause I'm left-handed.
That's the hand I use, well, never mind!
I been Phil Spectored, resurrected.
I been Lou Adlered, Barry Sadlered.
Well, I paid all the dues I want to pay.
And I learned the truth from Lenny Bruce,
And all my wealth won't buy me health,
So I smoke a pint of tea a day.

- as sung by Simon & Garfunkel "A Simple Desultory Philippic"

Hallelujah!
Go tell it on the mountain
Over the hills and everywhere
Go tell it on the mountain
Jesus christ is born
Down the lonely manger
The humble Christ was born
And God sent salvation
That blessed Christmas morn

- as sung by Simon & Garfunkel "Go Tell It On The Mountain"

Cloudy,
Cloudy.

- as sung by Simon & Garfunkel "Cloudy"

Last night I had the strangest dream
I ever dreamed before
I dreamed the world had all agreed
To put an end to war

- as sung by Simon & Garfunkel "Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream"

He cooled down, the motor cooled down
That's when I'd heard that highway sound
I kept back sittin' like a ton of lead
Got a hundred and ten a half mile ahead
Cadillac lookin' like it's standin' still
And I caught Maybellene at the top of the hill

- as sung by Simon & Garfunkel "Maybelline"

But I've got to creep down the alley way,
Fly down the highway,
Before they come to catch me I'll be gone.
Somewhere they can't find me.

- as sung by Simon & Garfunkel "Somewhere They Can't Find Me"

I knew a man, his brain was so small,
He couldn't think of nothing at all.
He's not the same as you and me.
He doesn't dig poetry. He's so unhip that
When you say Dylan, he thinks you're talking about Dylan Thomas,
Whoever he was.
The man ain't got no culture,
But it's alright, ma,
Everybody must get stoned.

- as sung by Simon & Garfunkel "A Simple Desultory Philippic"

So long, Frank Lloyd Wright.
I can't believe your song is gone so soon.
I barely learned the tune
So soon
So soon.
I'll remember Frank Lloyd Wright.
All of the nights we'd harmonize till dawn.
I never laughed so long
So long
So long.

- as sung by Simon & Garfunkel "So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright"

"Save the life of my child!"
Cried the desperate mother.
"What's becoming of the children?"
People asking each other.

- as sung by Simon & Garfunkel "Save the Life of My Child"

Four in the morning
Crapped out, yawning
Longing my life a--way
I'll never worry
Why should I?
It's all gonna fade

- as sung by Paul Simon "Still Crazy After All These Years"

New York, like a scene from all those movies
But you're real enough to me, but there's a heart
A heart that lives in New York

- as sung by Simon & Garfunkel "A Heart In New York"

The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is
Rapidly fadin'.
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the tilnes they are a-changin'.

- as sung by Simon & Garfunkel "The Times They Are A-Changin'"

A heart in New York, a rose on the street
I write my song to that city heartbeat
A heart in New York, love in her eye, an open door and a friend for the night

- as sung by Simon & Garfunkel "A Heart In New York"

"Oh, my Grace, I got no hiding place.""Oh, my Gr

- as sung by Simon & Garfunkel "Save the Life of My Child"

New York, to that tall skyline I come, flyin' in from London to your door
New York, lookin' down on Central Park
Where they say you should not wander after dark

- as sung by Simon & Garfunkel "A Heart In New York"

You're not startin' right, doin' those things you used to do
You're not startin' right, doin' those things you used to do

- as sung by Simon & Garfunkel "Maybelline"