L.A. Paul Quotes

I've got a reason to believe we all be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee.

Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away.

I have my books And my poetry to protect me; I am shielded in my armor, Hiding in my room, safe within my womb. I touch no one and no one touches me. I am a rock, I am an island.

You have underestimated my power, as you will shortly discover.

They've got a wall in China, it's a thousand miles long. To keep out the foreigners, they made it strong. And I've got a wall around me, you can't even see.

Couple in the next room bound to win a prize, they've been going at it all night long.

Justice Stevens is one of those who are most sensitive to the least powerful in our society.

The leaves that are green turn to brown. And they wither with the wind. And they crumble in your hand.

To get the stuff out of you, especially if what you're dealing with is yourself, requires you to open up and touch tender spots. You have to be anesthetized a little bit.

Every time the industry gets powerful, and corporate thinking dominates what the music is, then the music really pales.

My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.

The only time that love is an easy game is when two other people are playing it.

I don't think that Simon and Garfunkel as a live act compares to Simon and Garfunkel as a studio act.

It's pointless to be critical of your stuff once it's done. I don't spend a lot of time agonising over it. It's of no importance once it's finished.

She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy I said 'Be careful his bowtie is really a camera'

It's outrageous to line your pockets off the misery of the poor; It's outrageous, the crimes some human beings must endure.

...what threatens us today in the world of computers and other invasions of privacy is not a national ID card but a number of other things.

The problem is all inside your head, she said to me The answer is easy if you take it logically I'd like to help you in your struggle to be free There must be fifty ways to leave your lover.

Who's gonna love you when your looks are gone?

I know a man He came from my home town He wore his passion for his woman Like a thorny crown He said "Dolores I live in fear My love for you's so overpowering I'm afraid that I will disappear

...everything looks worse in black and white.

Blessed are the sat upon, spat upon, ratted on.

I won't disturb the slumber of feelings that have died. If I never loved I never would have cried...I am a rock.

Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough.

How much can you do with two voices? You can sing thirds or you can sing fifths or you can do a background harmony.

How can you live in the Northeast?

The course of a lifetime runs/over and over again

The Wisdom is old, the Koran is old, the Bible is old. Disagreements? Work 'em out.

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

I lived in an attached house. My father used to drive into the wrong driveway all the time. He'd say, Damn it, how do you tell one of these houses from another?

The public hungers to see talented young people kill themselves.

I get the news I need on the weather report And I have nothing to do today but smile

Medicine is magical and magical is art, the boy in the bubble, and the baby with the baboon heart.

Someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire.

I stepped outside to smoke a J and when I came back to the room, everybody just seemed to move.

I see a correlation between short stories and songs, because of their length and for what they're meant to evoke. Combine certain words with melodies and it all becomes very moving.

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 were always able to sing and blend well together; that's our gift. But aside from that, we're really two different guys.

Elvis was the reason I picked up the guitar.

I didn't get how big it was until I went home, turned on the television and saw it on all the news, and later that night on the front pages of all the newspapers. Then I got it.

A phenomenon occurs but because you're in the middle of it, you just think it's your life-until it's over. And then you look back and say, What an unusual thing happened to me in the '60s.

Being an artist doesn't mean that you're a good artist. That was the bargain I first made with myself: I'd say, I'm an artist, but I'm not really very good.

It was easier than explaining DiMaggio's use as a metaphor.

The degree of customization possible through your Preferences screens is awesome.

I question what emotion Manilow touches. People are entertained by him. But are they emotionally moved? I don't believe anything that Barry Manilow sings.

Jay Ashby is simply a great musician!

Hide it in a hiding place where no one ever goes Put it in your pantry with your cupcakes

I would not be convicted by a jury of my peers, still crazy after all these years.

All I've got to do today is smile.

Two times two is twenty-two, four times four is forty-four. When numbers get serious, they leave a mark on your door.