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Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.

Without Arthur's voice, I never would have enjoyed that success.

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.

When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.

When I began making my own albums, the songs became funkier. They were more about the streets.

We've survived by believing our life is going to get better.

We were always able to sing and blend well together; that's our gift. But aside from that, we're really two different guys.

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.

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.

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.

There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.

The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.

People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.

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.

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.

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.

Mrs. Robinson is a little dated now, but it has nothing to do with Joe DiMaggio.

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.

It's a big error to think that because you like somebody's work, you're going to like him.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I think I have a superior brain and an inferior stature, if you really want to get brutal about it.

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.

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.

I rate each album as better than the last one. That's how I see it.

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.

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?

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.

I don't think that Simon and Garfunkel as a live act compares to Simon and Garfunkel as a studio act.

I don't like fashion. It's very heartless.

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