Paul Simon Powerful Quotations

I really don't know what exactly all the songs mean. Sometimes other people have meanings and when I hear them I think, 'That's really a better meaning than I thought, and perfectly valid, given the words that exist.' So part of what makes a song really good is that people take in different meanings, and they apply them, and they might be more powerful than the ones I'm thinking.

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

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

I don't think [Dylan and the Beatles] influenced me a lot. I think it was inevitable; they were so powerful that you couldn't really escape the influence.

The students of Gallaudet have sent a powerful message across this country!