Art Garfunkel quotes

Art Garfunkel is an American musician and singer, famous as one half of the folk duo Simon & Garfunkel. His distinctive voice contributed to hits such as "Bridge Over Troubled Water" and "The Sound of Silence." He has also pursued a successful solo career and acted in several films. Here are 14 of his quotes:

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)

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

Art Garfunkel

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.

Art Garfunkel

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

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

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

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

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

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

Art Garfunkel

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

Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way. (Art Garfunkel)

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

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.

Art Garfunkel

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

Art Garfunkel

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Occupation: American Musician
Born: November 5, 1941
Quotes count: 14
Wikipedia: Art Garfunkel

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