Art Garfunkel famous quotes

05-23-2025

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
Everything worth doing starts with being scared.
-- Art Garfunkel

#Scared #Being Scared
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
If John Lennon is deported, I'm leaving too...with my musicians..and my marijuana.
-- Art Garfunkel

#Marijuana #Leaving #Musician
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
I have the feeling that in a balanced life one should die penniless. The trick is dismantling.
-- Art Garfunkel

#Feelings #Balance #Should
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
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 #Teach
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
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
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
Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way.
-- Art Garfunkel

#Years #Records #Way
Records have images. There are wet records and dry records. And big records.
-- Art Garfunkel

#Records #Dry #Bigs
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
They say in the darkest night there is a light beyond
-- Art Garfunkel

#Night #Light
Yes, I like that word. "More" is a prayer to God, isn't it? Gratitude and plea, all in one.
-- Art Garfunkel

#Gratitude #Prayer
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
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
You jump right over anything in the past, and you don't analyze problems.
-- Art Garfunkel

#Relationship #Past #Problem

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