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 More Quotes by Art Garfunkel More Quotes From Art Garfunkel 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 visiongreatnessmen Everything worth doing starts with being scared. Art Garfunkel being-scaredscared They say in the darkest night there is a light beyond Art Garfunkel lightnight You jump right over anything in the past, and you don't analyze problems. Art Garfunkel problemrelationshippast By my 40s, I finally got out of my own way, so I could become a life creator; a life giver. Art Garfunkel givergivingway 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 demandrecordssong I have the feeling that in a balanced life one should die penniless. The trick is dismantling. Art Garfunkel balanceshouldfeelings If John Lennon is deported, I'm leaving too...with my musicians..and my marijuana. Art Garfunkel marijuanaweedleaving In the tradition of great female artists, Karla Bonoff, Bonnie Raitt, Christine McVie, Shawn Art Garfunkel traditionfemaleartist Yes, I like that word. "More" is a prayer to God, isn't it? Gratitude and plea, all in one. Art Garfunkel gratitudeprayer 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 beautifullovethinking 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 realsongappreciation 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 radiomeanpeople 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 radiokindstuff I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it. Art Garfunkel wellsusedteaching 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 rock-and-rollrockshome 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 cherriesice-creamjoy 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 shiningmindyears 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 differencesnew-yorkmind 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 cheersocceryears
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