Simon & Garfunkel Quotes

“"Fools", said I, "You do not know
Silence like a cancer grows.”

“I'd rather be a hammer than a nail.
Yes I would, if I only could, I surely would.”

“Wikipedia: Simon & Garfunkel”

“Laugh about it, shout about it,
When you've got to choose,
Every way you look at it, you lose.”

“And you read your Emily Dickinson,
And I, my Robert Frost,
And we note our place with bookmarkers
That measure what we've lost.”

“Cecilia, you're breaking my heart,
You're shaking my confidence daily.
Oh Cecilia, I'm down on my knees,
I'm begging you please
To come home.
Come on home.”

“Tonight I'll sing my songs again,
I'll play the game and pretend.
But all my words come back to me in shades of mediocrity
Like emptiness in harmony I need someone to comfort me.”

“Slow down, you move too fast,
You've got to make the morning last.
Just kicking down the cobblestones,
Looking for fun and feeling groovy.
Ba da da da da da da, feeling groovy.”

“"Let us be lovers, we'll marry our fortunes together.
I've got some real estate here in my bag."
So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner pies,
And walked off to look for America.”

“Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?
Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you, woo woo woo.
What's that you say, Mrs. Robinson?
Joltin' Joe has left and gone away, hey hey hey.
Hey hey hey.”

“Time, time, time, see what's become of me,
While I looked around for my possibilities.
I was so hard to please.
But look around,
Leaves are brown,
And the sky is a hazy shade of winter.”

“And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson,
Jesus loves you more than you will know, wo wo wo.
God bless you please, Mrs. Robinson,
Heaven holds a place for those who pray, hey hey hey.
Hey hey hey.”

“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 just a poor boy.
Though my story's seldom told,
I have squandered my resistance
For a pocketful of mumbles, such are promises.
All lies and jest
Still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.”

“And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more.
People talking without speaking,
People hearing without listening,
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dare
Disturb the sound of silence.”

“From the moment of my birth
To the instant of my death,
There are patterns I must follow
Just as I must breathe each breath.
Like a rat in a maze,
The path before me lies.
And the pattern never alters
Until the rat dies.”

“Hello darkness, my old friend,
I've come to talk with you again,
Because a vision softly creeping,
Left its seeds while I was sleeping.
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains,
Within the sound of silence.”

“In the clearing stands a boxer,
And a fighter by his trade.
And he carries the reminders
Of ev'ry glove that laid him down
Or cut him till he cried out
In his anger and his shame,
"I am leaving, I am leaving."
But the fighter still remains.”

“Hey sunshine,
I haven't seen you in a long time.
Why don't you show your face and bend my mind?
These clouds stick to the sky,
Like a floating question why.
And they linger there to die.
They don't know where they are going, and, my friend, neither do I.”

“When you're weary, feeling small,
When tears are in your eyes, I will dry them all;
I'm on your side. When times get rough
And friends just can't be found,
Like a bridge over troubled water,
I will lay me down.
Like a bridge over troubled water,
I will lay me down.”