Art Garfunkel
Art Garfunkel
Arthur Ira "Art" Garfunkelis an American singer, poet and actor. He partnered in his earlier years with Paul Simon in the folk rock duo Simon & Garfunkel...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionFolk Singer
Date of Birth5 November 1941
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
artist female tradition
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home rocks rock-and-roll
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.
mean people radio
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.
dry records bigs
Records have images. There are wet records and dry records. And big records.
years way lasts
Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way.
radio stuff kind
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.
song records demand
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.
lines want tape
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.
teaching used wells
I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it.
ice-cream joy cherries
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.
kids nuts practice
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.
new-york differences mind
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.
fun joking-around certain
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.
soccer cheer years
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.