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Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way.

- Art Garfunkel
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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.

It's a great gift in my throat. When you have a gift, you think about the giver. Who gave this to me? And this takes you to a spiritual sense of God. That has captivated me all through my life, serving that lucky gift.

It was terrible. 2012, no voice. I would fall to my knees and look up at God and say, 'Oh, man, this is tough. I don't know how to be a person.' And finally, I would sing some shows where the voice crapped out. There were people in the audience. I did my best. I saw that there was lots of love and support.

I'm precise. I think in proportions. I play games with numbers, and I proportionalise.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way.

Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way.

Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way.

Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way.

Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way.

Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way.

Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way.

Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way.

Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way.

Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way.

Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way.

Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way.

Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way.

Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way.

Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way.