“Paul Simon is a man who has enormously enriched my life, period. But what would have been his life if his friend Artie didn’t sing so good and been so good and produced those records so good? What would it have been, huh? Something smaller.”

“I operate from an underdog role,” Art said, “or, I have in the past, until now. That’s over. I’d like to have been the one who had the freedom of obscurity; that sort of ‘behind the scenes’ a little bit. It’s worked for me [but] not anymore. No. Now I’ve tested myself with more power and I like it.”

“Relationships often wear themselves down over the years, and I think that with terrific intelligence and motivation you can keep, at best, one relationship going in spite of the separate changes. Usually a marriage situation. For me, it was natural and inevitable that Paul & Artie would come to feel more different than similar.”

“Our manager called us at the hotel we were staying at. He said, ‘Well, congratulations. Next week you will go from five to one in Billboard.’ It was fun. I remember pulling open the curtains and letting the brilliant sun come into this very red room, and then ordering room service. That was good.”

“Now, rock ‘n’ roll began—to my way of thinking—in around 1954, when Alan Freed came from Cleveland to New York and started playing all these far-out records… I was hooked-in right away—and so was Paul. I started listening every night. So, I think from the earliest time we listened, I think we sort of saw ourselves competitively. I did, anyway. I listened and I said, ‘I can do all that stuff, too.’”