"The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it."
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"I like working with sound; sound and rhythm. I like the abstract more than "What does that mean?" Nobody ever says to you, "Why did you use a harmonium?" Or "What is that ringing sound that occurs here?" The questions are always "What does that song mean?" or "What were you trying to say here?""
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"Big box just wasn't our strength. We are a men's and boy's specialty store focused on providing high quality clothing with custom tailoring. Our customer is king. When we had seven stores, communication between the stores and with our customers became more disconnected. We started to lose that great family 'camaraderie' that is essentially the key to our success."
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"We're living in a certain time, and we're aware of it. And that's part of what we're aware of, along with our own personal aches and pains."
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"There are lots of really good guitarists, but they play with the same pedals that everybody else does. Everybody buys the same pedals, so the sounds tend to be the same. I am looking for different ways of doing that without having to spend days and weeks and months fooling around with pedals, which I don't enjoy."
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"Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough."
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"My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears."
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"Every time the industry gets powerful, and corporate thinking dominates what the music is, then the music really pales."
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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."
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"I didn't get how big it was until I went home, turned on the television and saw it on all the news, and later that night on the front pages of all the newspapers. Then I got it."
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"The leaves that are green turn to brown. And they wither with the wind. And they crumble in your hand."
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"I see a correlation between short stories and songs, because of their length and for what they're meant to evoke. Combine certain words with melodies and it all becomes very moving."
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"The only time that love is an easy game is when two other people are playing it."
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"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."
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"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."
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"A phenomenon occurs but because you're in the middle of it, you just think it's your life-until it's over. And then you look back and say, What an unusual thing happened to me in the '60s."
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"You sit and you let your fingers go to wherever they are going to go. You wait until you start to hear something, and you start to figure out what it is that you're doing. And then you add another piece next to that piece, and wait to see if some kind of pattern or something interesting starts to grow, and then you cultivate it."
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"Being an artist doesn't mean that you're a good artist. That was the bargain I first made with myself: I'd say, I'm an artist, but I'm not really very good."
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"Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work."
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"It was easier than explaining DiMaggio's use as a metaphor."
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