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- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we came into the studio I became more and more me, making the tracks and choosing the musicians, partly because a great deal of the time during Bridge, Artie wasn't there.
- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I began making my own albums, the songs became funkier. They were more about the streets.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were always able to sing and blend well together; that's our gift. But aside from that, we're really two different guys.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
We just did what we'd done when we were an act in the '60s. But I found it impossible to hold a dialogue with 500,000 people. In a certain sense, it was numbing.
- Each One
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- Nov 07, 2020
We had many more points of agreement than we had points of difference, but we did differ, and the bigger we got, the more insistent we got that each one of us should have his way.
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry.
- Romantic
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.
- Criticism
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Song
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's pleasure, but you don't get wiped out.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
My voice is my improvisational instrument, the melody instrument. The guitar is harmonic structure. I'm not a good enough guitarist to improvise on it.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mrs. Robinson is a little dated now, but it has nothing to do with Joe DiMaggio.
- Importance
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's pointless to be critical of your stuff once it's done. I don't spend a lot of time agonising over it. It's of no importance once it's finished.
- Nov 07, 2020
It's a big error to think that because you like somebody's work, you're going to like him.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not in it for the money. I like music. I love to write music. I can't imagine myself not playing or singing or writing. It would just drive me crazy if I didn't.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work.
- Eating
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don't get sentimental. I think we're all afraid to reveal our hearts. It's not at all in fashion.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think I have a superior brain and an inferior stature, if you really want to get brutal about it.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think Bridge Over Troubled Water was a very good song. Artie sang it beautifully. The Boxer was a really nice record. But I don't think I've written any great songs.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.
- Emotion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I question what emotion Manilow touches. People are entertained by him. But are they emotionally moved? I don't believe anything that Barry Manilow sings.
- Driveway
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lived in an attached house. My father used to drive into the wrong driveway all the time. He'd say, Damn it, how do you tell one of these houses from another?
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think that Simon and Garfunkel as a live act compares to Simon and Garfunkel as a studio act.
- Heartless
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- Nov 07, 2020