Simon & Garfunkel Quotes
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Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.
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Records have images. There are wet records and dry records. And big records.
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I have the feeling that in a balanced life one should die penniless. The trick is dismantling.
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By my 40s, I finally got out of my own way, so I could become a life creator; a life giver.
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Two times two is twenty-two, four times four is forty-four. When numbers get serious, they leave a mark on your door.
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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.
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Yes, I like that word. "More" is a prayer to God, isn't it? Gratitude and plea, all in one.
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I did have a lucky thing going on there in my throat.
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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.
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Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
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All I've got to do today is smile.
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All God requires from us is to enjoy life and love. That's the whole point.
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To the extreme. Dylan was the coolest thing in the country. If you were a young person at that age, maybe you don't go for Dylan's gravelly style voice, but who he was and how different and bold his lyrics were, and his look, that was the closest thing the record business had to James Dean.
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There are two sorts of people in the world: Those who listen and those who are thinking about what they are going to say next.
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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.
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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.
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Don't want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard.
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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?
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You jump right over anything in the past, and you don't analyze problems.
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There was always some kind of strain, but it was workable. The bigger you get, the more of a strain it is, because in your everyday life, you're less used to compromising. As you get bigger, you have your own way. But in a partnership you always have to compromise. … When you get into a partnership, you're not the boss. There's no boss. That makes it hard.
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As soon as your mind knows that it's on and it's supposed to produce some lines, either it doesn't or it produces things that are very predictable. And that's why I say I'm not interested in writing something that I thought about. I'm interested in discovering where my mind wants to go, or what object it wants to pick up.
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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. 1
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In the tradition of great female artists, Karla Bonoff, Bonnie Raitt, Christine McVie, Shawn Colvin, Sarah McLachlan....now enter Maia Sharp.
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I don't think that Simon and Garfunkel as a live act compares to Simon and Garfunkel as a studio act.