Top 50 Garfunkel Quotes

#1. I did have a lucky thing going on there in my throat.

Art Garfunkel

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#2. 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

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#3. Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way.

Art Garfunkel

Garfunkel Quotes #203237
#4. 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

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#5. You jump right over anything in the past, and you don't analyze problems.

Art Garfunkel

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#6. I actually prefer female voices to listen to, mostly, but among the male singers whose voices I like are Jeff Buckley, Art Garfunkel, that sort of voice. Contemporary crooners rather than rockers.

Gregory Maguire

Garfunkel Quotes #264375
#7. My expectations for myself were never high. I had a very unusual way of writing songs and of thinking about music. I wasn't at all like Bob Dylan or Simon and Garfunkel. I was completely different - I didn't have a David Geffen at my side.

Don McLean

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#8. I listened to John Denver and Simon & Garfunkel. Edith Piaf was a huge favourite. Then I discovered musicals - I loved 'Les Miserables' - and, at about 14, I started listening to David Gray.

Gin Wigmore

Garfunkel Quotes #310222
#9. 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

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#10. In the tradition of great female artists, Karla Bonoff, Bonnie Raitt, Christine McVie, Shawn
Colvin, Sarah McLachlan ... now enter Maia Sharp.

Art Garfunkel

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#11. 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

Garfunkel Quotes #417620
#12. I don't think that Simon and Garfunkel as a live act compares to Simon and Garfunkel as a studio act.

Paul Simon

Garfunkel Quotes #429907
#13. 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

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#14. However, there are quite a few current artists doing clever, creative musical comedy, including The Lonely Island, Flight of the Conchords, Tenacious D, Ylvis, Garfunkel and Oates, Reggie Watts,

Anonymous

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

Art Garfunkel

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#16. If John Lennon is deported, I'm leaving too ... with my musicians..and my marijuana.

Art Garfunkel

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#17. Simon and Garfunkel were prophetic. The Sound of Silence certainly applies today with so many people communicating through electronic devices. It isn't uncommon to see kids standing side by side talking without speaking. We bow and pray to the back-lit gods we made.

Mary Russel

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#18. My dad was a huge Bob Dylan fan, so we listened to his music, Cat Stevens, Simon & Garfunkel, and all that kind of stuff.

Oscar Isaac

Garfunkel Quotes #598705
#19. I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it.

Art Garfunkel

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#20. Are Simon & Garfunkel cool, or are they just really uncool? I can't decide.

Steven Hall

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#21. Sometimes Lennon needed McCartney and sometimes Simon needed Garfunkel. You'd go mad doing everything on your own.

Jake Bugg

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#22. 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

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#23. 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

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#24. 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

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#25. 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

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#26. I've listened to Dylan my entire life. My dad was a huge Bob Dylan fan, so we listened to his music, Cat Stevens, Simon & Garfunkel, and all that kind of stuff. It opened up a whole world of this music that I'm now obsessed with.

Oscar Isaac

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#27. A kitchen without an ironing board? Are you kidding? It's un-American. It's like Simon without Garfunkel.

Erma Bombeck

Garfunkel Quotes #845357
#28. By my 40s, I finally got out of my own way, so I could become a life creator; a life giver.

Art Garfunkel

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#29. 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

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

Art Garfunkel

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#31. Everything worth doing starts with being scared.

Art Garfunkel

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#32. One of the things that upset me was some of the criticism leveled at Simon and Garfunkel. I always took exception to it, but actually I agree with a lot of it.

Paul Simon

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#33. 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

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#34. 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

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#35. I love Soundgarden, I love Rage Against the Machine, Simon & Garfunkel.

Lee DeWyze

Garfunkel Quotes #1156477
#36. I couldn't imagine a day without music. It relaxes and stimulates me in equal measure and I hate the sound of silence - the concept, I mean, not the track by Simon and Garfunkel.

Charles Kennedy

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#37. 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

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#38. On Art Garfunkel - He makes Paul Simon look like LL Cool J.

Ian Gittins

Garfunkel Quotes #1309213
#39. Paul is a very creative artist but I'm more that thorough, meticulous, disciplined nut.

Art Garfunkel

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#40. Far from being the rock or island in the Simon and Garfunkel song, it turns out that the best metaphor to describe the human body is 'sponge.

Rick Smith

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#41. There's a reason for Art Garfunkel's oddly shaped hair. It hides a very big brain.

Shawn Amos

Garfunkel Quotes #1400348
#42. I have the feeling that in a balanced life one should die penniless. The trick is dismantling.

Art Garfunkel

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#43. My dad is a huge folk music fan, so growing up, there were always records playing in my house. Carole King, James Taylor, Simon and Garfunkel, the Beatles - I grew up with this music, and I was aware of how special this music was to a lot of people.

Jake Epstein

Garfunkel Quotes #1412365
#44. Nowadays I'm more interested in what you'd call 'alternative.' Lately we've been listening to a lot of Mumford & Sons, and Jenny Owen Youngs. I'm also pretty crazy about the Kings of Convenience, a Norwegian band that's been compared to Simon and Garfunkel.

Jennifer Egan

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#45. My guilty pleasure is Simon & Garfunkel. I'm embarrassed about it. They're dorky.

Kemp Muhl

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#46. I thought 'Garfunkel and Oates' would be too confusing, but it ended up being confusing in the best of ways because the first time we played a comedy club, it was because they thought we were the real Garfunkel and Oates.

Kate Micucci

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#47. 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

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#48. They say in the darkest night there is a light beyond

Art Garfunkel

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#49. I like records. My favorite is Simon and Garfunkel.

Morgan Saylor

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#50. 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

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