Paul Simon

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1941 age 0

   Born

2. 1975 age 34

   CreditShampoocomposer

3. 1977 age 36

   CreditAnnie Hall

4. 2008 age 67

   CreditThe Great Buck Howard

• THTom Hanks1 title
• DCDick Cavett1 title
• DKDiane Keaton1 title
• GWGordon Willis1 title
• SWSigourney Weaver1 title
• GTGeorge Takei1 title
• CWChristopher Walken1 title
• TWTracey Walter1 title
• TFTak Fujimoto1 title
• GGGary Goetzman1 title

• Spouse

  • CFCarrie Fisher
  • EBEdie Brickell

• Partner

  • CFCarrie Fisher
  • SDShelley Duvall

Nothing recorded for: Parents, Children, Siblings, Influenced by, Studied under, Taught.

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  Photo:Matthew Straubmuller (imatty35)CC BY 2.0

• And the war rages on in a land called somewhere<br> And Generals order their men to kill<br> And to fight for a cause they've long ago forgotten<br> While a little cloud weeps on the side of a hill.

  Paul Simon, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I like them all. … They're all pictures of me when I wrote them. … I have no favorite songs.

  Paul Simon, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I wanted to sing other types of songs that Simon and Garfunkel wouldn't do. "Mother and Child Reunion" for example, is not a song that you would have normally thought that Simon and Garfunkel would have done. It's possible that they might have. But it wouldn't have been the same, and I don't know if I would have been so inclined in that direction. So for me it was a chance to break out and gamble a little bit … The breakup had to do with a natural drifting apart as we got older and the separate lives that were more individual. We weren't so consumed with recording and performing. We had other activities … there was no great pressure to stay together other than money, which exerted very little influence upon us. … We didn't need the money.

  Paul Simon, CC BY-SA 4.0

• There was always some kind of strain, but it was workable. The bigger you get, the more of a strain it is, because in your everyday life, you're less used to compromising. As you get bigger, you have your own way. But in a partnership you always have to compromise. … When you get into a partnership, you're not the boss. There's no boss. That makes it hard.

  Paul Simon, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Instead of thinking in terms of chords, I think of voice-leading; that is, melody line and bass line, and where the bass line goes. If you do that, you'll have the right chord. [These voices] will give you some alternatives, and you can play those different alternatives to hear which one suits your ear... Keep the bass line moving so you don't stay in one spot: if you have an interesting bass line and you roll it against the melody, the chords are going to come out right.

  Paul Simon, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I didn't want to repeat the same notes in the second verse that I used in the first, so I wrote out all the notes of the song and all the notes that were missing in the scale, given that there are twelve notes from octave to octave. All those notes that weren't in the scale were the ones I wanted in for the next verse. The listener isn't aware that they are new notes, but the sound is pleasing to the ear. I change the key, and somehow it's fresh because you haven't heard those notes before.

  Paul Simon, CC BY-SA 4.0