"If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you’ve created a special little thing, and that’s what I’m looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything."
― Paul Simon
Topic(s):
Humor
More From Paul Simon
- "I’m not in it for the money. I like music. I love to write music. I can’t imagine myself not playing or singing or writing. It would just drive me crazy if I didn’t."
- "Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die."
- "As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won’t be put to death."
More In Humor
- "It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have – I guess you’d call them beauty contests – where all of the women of a particular village or town would be seated behind these screens or curtains with only their feet showing."― Lisa See
- "You can’t do anything to be funny. That’s cringeworthy. If your humor comes out of a place of love every time, you don’t make the joke bigger than you. The funniest comedians are in touch with their emotional level."― John Krasinski
- "He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel."― Ryszard Kapuscinski