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"Improvisation is too good to leave to chance."
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"You're always frustrated, you don't have the chance to do a song on the album, like the Beatles did with Ringo and George, or like Led Zeppelin, where everybody was given a chance to contribute. There never is a chance with the Stones."

"I went to college and I never allowed myself to think for an instant that I would have this chance to do this."

"If you look closely enough, amid the merciless and the bitter, there is always the chance that you may find comfort and the promise of something good."

"Revie said there was nothing between me and Ray yet he never gave me a chance to show what I could do."
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"One of the things that upset me was some of the criticism leveled at Simon and Garfunkel. I always took exception to it, but actually I agree with a lot of it."

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

"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."

"Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do."

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

"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."
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