Art Garfunkel Quotes

• It seems to me that at 19 or 20, a young man is burning to be great at something. I was. You have a vision that's beyond the neighborhood. You want to make a mark while you're alive. You don't know exactly your future, but you want to be great at it. And greatness is an important word. And you dare not tell anybody how extreme and how burning are your visions, because you don't want anybody to mess with them

  Art Garfunkel

  Greatness, Men, Vision

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• Everything worth doing starts with being scared.

  Art Garfunkel

  Scared, Being Scared

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• They say in the darkest night there is a light beyond

  Art Garfunkel

  Night, Light

  Song: All I Know, Album: Angel Clare, 1973

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• If John Lennon is deported, I'm leaving too...with my musicians..and my marijuana.

  Art Garfunkel

  Weed, Marijuana, Leaving

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• You jump right over anything in the past, and you don't analyze problems.

  Art Garfunkel

  Relationship, Past, Problem

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• We human beings are tuned such that we crave great melody and great lyrics. And if somebody writes a great song, it's timeless that we as humans are going to feel something for that and there's going to be a real appreciation.

  Art Garfunkel

  Song, Appreciation, Real

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• I would start seeing, in just the sense I was saying now, the kind of record it was going to be and what the arrangement demands, and what my vocal part should be in the record. This was all emerging as the song was emerging.

  Art Garfunkel

  Song, Records, Demand

  Interview with Paul Zollo for The Song Talk, www.artgarfunkel.com. 1990.

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• I have the feeling that in a balanced life one should die penniless. The trick is dismantling.

  Art Garfunkel

  Feelings, Balance, Should

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• By my 40s, I finally got out of my own way, so I could become a life creator; a life giver.

  Art Garfunkel

  Giving, Way, Giver

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• Paul has more, I think, of a feel for the stage. Whereas I have it more for the notes themselves. I love record making and mixing, arranging, producing. That I love. I love to make beautiful things, but I don't like to perform.

  Art Garfunkel

  Love, Beautiful, Thinking

  "Song Talk Interview". Interview with Paul Zollo, www.artgarfunkel.com. 1990.

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• Yes, I like that word. "More" is a prayer to God, isn't it? Gratitude and plea, all in one.

  Art Garfunkel

  Gratitude, Prayer

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• In the tradition of great female artists, Karla Bonoff, Bonnie Raitt, Christine McVie, Shawn
  Colvin, Sarah McLachlan....now enter Maia Sharp.

  Art Garfunkel

  Artist, Female, Tradition

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• I'm the kind of person who can hear that stuff. If you sing along to the radio and you're not going to sing unison with the melody, but find the harmony, I find that pretty easy to do.

  Art Garfunkel

  Radio, Stuff, Kind

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• I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it.

  Art Garfunkel

  Teaching, Used, Wells

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• When Paul and I were first friends, starting in the sixth grade and seventh grade, we would sing a little together and we would make up radio shows and become disc jockeys on our home wire recorder. And then came rock and roll.

  Art Garfunkel

  Home, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  "Song Talk Interview". Interview with Paul Zollo, www.artgarfunkel.com. 1990.

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• Rodgers and Hammerstein didn't mean anything to me. I just wanted to have a hit, I just wanted to be like those people on the radio. It was all of a case of the present tense with no projecting into the future, particularly.

  Art Garfunkel

  Mean, People, Radio

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• I like working solo and it was a lot of fun joking around with the audience, saying things. I'm only just learning how to do certain things.

  Art Garfunkel

  Fun, Joking Around, Solo

  Song Talk Interview with Paul Zollo, www.artgarfunkel.com. 1990.

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• Records have images. There are wet records and dry records. And big records.

  Art Garfunkel

  Records, Dry, Bigs

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• Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way.

  Art Garfunkel

  Years, Records, Way

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• New York, you got money on your mind. And my words won't make a dime's worth a difference, so here's to you New York.

  Art Garfunkel

  New York, Differences, Mind

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• We'd go to the fraternity house. It was a good place to practice. But we really wanted the kids to overhear us. And whoever heard us would go nuts over it.

  Art Garfunkel

  Kids, Nuts, Practice

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• Monterey was the Maraschino cherry on top of the Sundae that was the '60s. It was totally unprecedented, and the audience was unprecedented in their joy.

  Art Garfunkel

  Ice Cream, Joy, Cherries

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• Never mind the transience of show business and popularity. When we hear Ray Charles, we go, 'That's a great singer.' You don't need a reporter or a writer to tell us. Good is good and it should shine through the years.

  Art Garfunkel

  Years, Shining, Mind

  "Art Garfunkel: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 21, 2011.

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• After all these years, I'm finally into soccer. The World Cup is on, and my band is an international group - they're all around me, cheering in the hotel bars.

  Art Garfunkel

  Soccer, Cheer, Years

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• So its mix and match. Hold your line when you really feel something youre saying is wonderful and you really want to get this point across and prove it to your partner by just throwing it into the tape and letting it speak for itself.

  Art Garfunkel

  Tape, Lines, Want

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