Art Garfunkel Biography

Born asArthur Ira Garfunkel
Occup.Musician
FromUSA
BornNovember 5, 1941
Queens, New York, USA
Age82 years
Arthur Ira Garfunkel was born upon November 5, 1941, in Forest Hills, Queens, New York City. He was the 2nd youngster of Rose as well as Jacob Garfunkel. His dad was an electric sales person, and his mommy was a homemaker.

Garfunkel grew up in a Jewish household, and also he went to Hebrew institution as well as had a Bar Mitzvah in 1954. He was interested in singing from a young age and also signed up with the institution choir. Garfunkel was also a gifted athlete and also played basketball and also baseball in high school.

After finishing from senior high school, Garfunkel enrolled at Columbia University in 1959, where he satisfied his future musical partner, Paul Simon. They began performing with each other as Tom and Jerry, and also eventually landed a recording contract with Big Records.

In the mid-60s, Simon and also Garfunkel attained widespread popularity with their hit songs, consisting of "The Sound of Silence", "Mrs. Robinson", and "Bridge Over Troubled Water". The duo won numerous Grammy Awards and became one of one of the most beloved and also prominent music acts of the period.

Garfunkel additionally pursued a solo occupation and released several seriously well-known cds, including "Angel Clare", "Breakaway", and "Watermark". He continued to team up with Simon and various other artists throughout his profession, as well as he has actually additionally acted in films as well as television shows.

Beyond songs and also acting, Garfunkel is an author and also passionate reader. He has published several publications, including his narrative, "What Is It All But Luminous: Notes from an Underground Man", and also he typically shares his thoughts and also evaluations on literature and poetry.

Garfunkel has been married two times as well as has two children. He continues to visit and also perform, and also he stays a precious and prominent number in American music.

Our collection contains 17 quotes who is written / told by Art.

Related authors: Paul Simon (Musician)

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17 Famous quotes by Art Garfunkel

Small: Wed go to the fraternity house. It was a good place to practice. But we really wanted the kids to overh
"We'd go to the fraternity house. It was a good place to practice. But we really wanted the kids to overhear us. And whoever heard us would go nuts over it"
Small: Records have images. There are wet records and dry records. And big records
"Records have images. There are wet records and dry records. And big records"
Small: After all these years, Im finally into soccer. The World Cup is on, and my band is an international gro
"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"
Small: I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Que
"I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out"
Small: When Paul and I were first friends, starting in the sixth grade and seventh grade, we would sing a litt
"When Paul and I were first friends, starting in the sixth grade and seventh grade, we would sing a little together and we would make up radio shows and become disc jockeys on our home wire recorder. And then came rock and roll"
Small: So its mix and match. Hold your line when you really feel something youre saying is wonderful and you r
"So it's mix and match. Hold your line when you really feel something you're saying is wonderful and you really want to get this point across and prove it to your partner by just throwing it into the tape and letting it speak for itself"
Small: Paul is a very creative artist but Im more that thorough, meticulous, disciplined nut
"Paul is a very creative artist but I'm more that thorough, meticulous, disciplined nut"
Small: Im the kind of person who can hear that stuff. If you sing along to the radio and youre not going to si
"I'm the kind of person who can hear that stuff. If you sing along to the radio and you're not going to sing unison with the melody, but find the harmony, I find that pretty easy to do"
Small: I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it
"I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it"
Small: I did have a lucky thing going on there in my throat
"I did have a lucky thing going on there in my throat"
Small: We human beings are tuned such that we crave great melody and great lyrics. And if somebody writes a gr
"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"
Small: Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Lets put it that way
"Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way"
Small: Paul has more, I think, of a feel for the stage. Whereas I have it more for the notes themselves. I lov
"Paul has more, I think, of a feel for the stage. Whereas I have it more for the notes themselves. I love record making and mixing, arranging, producing. That I love. I love to make beautiful things, but I don't like to perform"
Small: Rodgers and Hammerstein didnt mean anything to me. I just wanted to have a hit, I just wanted to be lik
"Rodgers and Hammerstein didn't mean anything to me. I just wanted to have a hit, I just wanted to be like those people on the radio. It was all of a case of the present tense with no projecting into the future, particularly"
Small: I like working solo and it was a lot of fun joking around with the audience, saying things. Im only jus
"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"
Small: Pauls the writer. Yeah, I wrote a little of that stuff, but thats just technically true. In spirit, and
"Paul's the writer. Yeah, I wrote a little of that stuff, but that's just technically true. In spirit, and in essence of the truth, it doesn't matter. So I don't know, maybe I'm being foolish for not being technical. Yeah, I wrote a certain portion of the things"
Small: I would start seeing, in just the sense I was saying now, the kind of record it was going to be and wha
"I would start seeing, in just the sense I was saying now, the kind of record it was going to be and what the arrangement demands, and what my vocal part should be in the record. This was all emerging as the song was emerging"