Paul Frederic Simon (b.1942) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. One of America’s finest pop lyricists, he is celebrated as bringing a highbrow sensibility to rock music.
Born in Newark, New Jersey, Simon was one-half of the duo Simon & Garfunkel and pursued a solo career under various pseudonyms before The Sound of Silence (1965) brought the pair its first significant success. They had the most successful album of the early 1970s with Bridge Over Troubled Water (1970.)
Simon’s songs were used in the film The Graduate (1968) soundtrack, one of the first major films to incorporate rock music in this way. The duo split up in 1970, and Simon went on to pursue a successful solo career, recording albums such as There Goes Rhymin’ Simon (1973) and Graceland (1986,) The Rhythm of the Saints (1990,) and Surprise (2006.)
Patrick Humphries wrote the biography The Boy in the Bubble (1990.)
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Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.
—Paul Simon
Topics: Follow
The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence
—Paul Simon
Topics: Words
All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
—Paul Simon
Topics: Lying, Deception/Lying, Lies
Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.
—Paul Simon
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