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
relationship past problem
You jump right over anything in the past, and you don't analyze problems.
song appreciation real
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.
scared being-scared
Everything worth doing starts with being scared.
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
american-musician architecture columbia drive paul showing
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.
american-musician certain essence foolish maybe portion wrote
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.
american-musician paul
Paul is a very creative artist but I'm more that thorough, meticulous, disciplined nut.