Top 60 Quotes by Paul Simon

I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.

People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.

My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It's the only thing I find interesting.

I don't consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I'm growing.

I don't like fashion. It's very heartless.

I rate each album as better than the last one. That's how I see it.

Without Arthur's voice, I never would have enjoyed that success.

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.

When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.

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.