Top 60 Quotes by Paul Simon

I think I have a superior brain and an inferior stature, if you really want to get brutal about it.

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.

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.

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.

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.

One of the things that upset me was some of the criticism leveled at Simon and Garfunkel. I always took exception to it, but actually I agree with a lot of it.

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.