Art Garfunkel Quotes
Art Garfunkel offers plain-spoken musings about music and emotion, perfect for anyone who loves thoughtful lyricism.
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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. [1]
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Records have images. There are wet records and dry records. And big records. [2]
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Then I would sing a little in the synagogue. See, if you're a singer, you love to turn your own ears on. You look for those rooms where the reverb is great. I remember the synagogue had a lot of wood and it was a great room. And it was a captive audience and you could sing these minor key songs and make them cry, and that was a thrill. [3]
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Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way.
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It was terrible. 2012, no voice. I would fall to my knees and look up at God and say, 'Oh, man, this is tough. I don't know how to be a person.' And finally, I would sing some shows where the voice crapped out. There were people in the audience. I did my best. I saw that there was lots of love and support.
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I'm always different. I'm an eccentric man.
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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.
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This is a song about the inability of people to communicate with each other. Not particularly internationally, but especially emotionally. So that what you see is people who are unable to love each other. This is called the Sounds of Silence...
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Paul is a very creative artist but I'm more that thorough, meticulous, disciplined nut.
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So it's mix and match. Hold your line when you really feel something you're 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.
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If John Lennon is deported, I'm leaving too...with my musicians..and my marijuana.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.