Art Garfunkel – HuffPost 9.21.12

Mike Ragogna: What advice do you have for new artists?

Art Garfunkel: Be careful of advice. Be very personal and private about your sense of what’s good about you. If it’s not a sense of what’s great about you, give it up. You’ve got to think you’re great and you have to close the doors and stick with that and practice. This does not involve other people. It’s a one-man or one-woman show, this pursuit. Use your own ears; that’s the only audience you need when you’re learning — your own ears. Shape your sound until your own ears say, “That’s good… that’s very good… that’s great!” You pursue that. I don’t believe in teachers or classes or students. It reduces the ego.