Art Garfunkel Professions : Singer Born : November 5, 1941 Browse All Authors Top 38 quotes by Art Garfunkel Records have images. There are wet records and dry records. And big records. Art Garfunkel dry records bigs Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way. Art Garfunkel records way years 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 joking-around solo fun 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 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 practice nuts kids Paul says he heard the phrase 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' sung as a Baptist riff, i took it to mainstream radio. Then Aretha so brilliantly brought it back to church. Art Garfunkel entertainment It was a weird stage of my life, to leave Simon & Garfunkel at the height of our success and become a math teacher. I would talk them through a math problem and ask if anyone had any questions, and they would say, 'What were the Beatles like?' Art Garfunkel my-life success teacher life I'm precise. I think in proportions. I play games with numbers, and I proportionalise. Art Garfunkel think games play numbers It's a great gift in my throat. When you have a gift, you think about the giver. Who gave this to me? And this takes you to a spiritual sense of God. That has captivated me all through my life, serving that lucky gift. Art Garfunkel me you god life I did have a lucky thing going on there in my throat. Art Garfunkel did going throat lucky I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out. Art Garfunkel drive me architecture school Paul is a very creative artist but I'm more that thorough, meticulous, disciplined nut. Art Garfunkel more very creative artist Paul's the writer. Yeah, I wrote a little of that stuff, but that's just technically true. In spirit, and in essence of the truth, it doesn't matter. So I don't know, maybe I'm being foolish for not being technical. Yeah, I wrote a certain portion of the things. Art Garfunkel true know truth matter I've been singing since I was five. It's my identity. Art Garfunkel been five singing identity Will I do another tour with Paul? Well, that's quite do-able. When we get together, with his guitar, it's a delight to both of our ears. A little bubble comes over us, and it seems effortless. We blend. Art Garfunkel will get-together guitar together I don't put myself into the category of 'rock star writing his biography.' That's because we live our lives by falling into experiences. Things happen to us. Something you do takes hold of you, and then you do a lot of it. Art Garfunkel live myself you things-happen I'm always different. I'm an eccentric man. Art Garfunkel man always eccentric different 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. Art Garfunkel best man god love Similar Authors Bert McCracken singer Betty Carter singer Bing Crosby singer Brian Fallon singer Brooke Allison singer Brook Benton singer All Authors