![]() His songs have strong cores, but leave a lot of space for other artists to play around with. ![]() In both words and music, Simon can use a little to say a lot. I don’t write melodies that are clever or catchy.”įalse modesty aside, Dylan hits on some of what makes Simon’s work so beloved by other musicians. I’m not a classical lyricist, I’m not a meticulous lyricist. My songs come out of folk music and early rock n’ roll, and that’s it. Simon’s in the rarified air of someone whose songs get covered almost as much as Dylan’s (ugh – second place again), so for this month’s Best Covers Ever, we’re diving into covers of the entire Paul Simon catalog, both solo and with Simon and Garfunkel.Īnother thing Dylan once said about Simon, in relation to his own music, is this: “I’m not Paul Simon. We already celebrated Bob Dylan’s 80th birthday in May, and today we turn to the man Dylan has called “one of the preeminent songwriters of the times,” Paul Simon, as he hits his own 80th. “I usually come in second to Dylan,” Paul Simon once said, “and I don’t like coming in second.” Indeed, he’s had to deal with it literally ever since he was born, in 1941.
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