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
giving way giver
By my 40s, I finally got out of my own way, so I could become a life creator; a life giver.
aware chose hit resonance sort
We're aware that it has resonance for the times, yes. But we chose it because it was the first hit we ever had, and it put sort of a bookend on our career.
love beautiful thinking
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.
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.
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.
years way lasts
Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way.
dry records bigs
Records have images. There are wet records and dry records. And big records.
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.
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.
artist female tradition
In the tradition of great female artists, Karla Bonoff, Bonnie Raitt, Christine McVie, Shawn Colvin, Sarah McLachlan....now enter Maia Sharp.
night light
They say in the darkest night there is a light beyond
scared being-scared
Everything worth doing starts with being scared.
architecture freely half illusion imagination love natural pen pick quite realized run school sketch three towards
I did three and a half years in the architecture school with no real love or feel for it. After quite a while I realized I don't like to pick up a pen and freely sketch and let my imagination run towards structures. And if I don't have that natural desire, what am I doing here? How did I let this illusion go on so long?
greatness men vision
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