Paul Simon Quotes

People are fighting over how our heartsongs are different. But they don't need to be the same. That's the beauty. We are a mosaic of gifts. Each of us has our inner beauty no matter how we look.

A fruit salad is delicious precisely because each fruit maintains its own flavor.

I guess if you can't sing, you better have a style!

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.

I sang with a voice that was natural, and I liked the way I produced that sound. I thought of my other friends, that they were singing and dancing, but they didn't have this. I was special.

I've played in bands with A-team players around. But unless they can play together, it doesn't do any good. And you can take guys who may not stand on their own up against a bunch of individuals they might be compared to, but you put 'em together, man, and they are unique unto themselves in a way that no one else can touch.

People have a certain perfection about them, no matter who they are. Like when Janis Joplin sang. Gorgeous!

The things that make us different, those are our superpowers.

I am always attracted to people who are not myself but are.

Not everybody has to sing the melody.

Let us not torment each other because we are not all alike, but believe that God knew best what He was doing in making us so different. So will the best harmony come out of seeming discords, the best affection out of differences, the best life out of struggle, and the best work will be done when each does his own work, and lets every one else do and be what God made him for.

We are not the same. But we are, somehow, one.

People may be said to resemble not the bricks of which a house is built, but the pieces of a picture puzzle, each differing in shape, but matching the rest, and thus bringing out the picture.

Where there is no difference, there is only indifference.

Everyone is unique and each experience is different.

The fact is, there really is no such thing as 'normal' - everybody's different, and that is the essence of their beauty

Thank God that I had the ability to understand that I had a different beat and that I was a drummer.

For the church is not a human society of people united by their natural affinities but the Body of Christ, in which all members, however different, (and He rejoices in their differences and by no means wishes to iron them out) must share the common life, complementing and helping one another precisely by their differences.

Anybody who is any good is different from anybody else.

Your insecurities are what makes you different and who you are. If we all were the same, it'd be boring.

It seemed to her such nonsense-inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that.

I fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great men any more than you can manufacture gold.

If you think all men are created equal, you haven't seen Bo Diddley in the shower.

Your significance is not in your similarity to another - it is in your point of difference.