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" You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen. "

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" Artie travels all the time. The rehearsals were just miserable. Artie and I fought all the time. He didn't want to do the show with my band; he just wanted me on acoustic guitar. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work. "

" The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence. "

" There must be 50 ways to leave your lover. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent. "

" Who am I to blow against the wind? "

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

" I don't feel any pressure from fans. But I'm always in some kind of state of emotional turmoil. I would not describe myself as happy-go-lucky. That's not to say that I'm not happy. "

" I always get very calm with baseball. "

" 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. "

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

" Listen to the sound of silence. "

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

" Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone. "

" 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. "

" 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 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 question what emotion Manilow touches. People are entertained by him. But are they emotionally moved? I don't believe anything that Barry Manilow sings. "

" Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that. "

" The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains. "