I notice that so many of my peers, aging ingénues, rock stars, are moving along in life into their wrinkles with an adoring audience that's aging as well, and the plain truth is that I wasn't condemned by that because… — Van Dyke Parks Copy Share Image
Well, to me, the tensile strength and the very definition of an artist is something that I would place at the top of a vertical hierarchy. To be an artist is to suffer and to lead a life without shelter. It takes a great amount of daring-do, self reinvention, imagination, familial loyalty, sacrifice, economic uncertainty, and the right to be… — Van Dyke Parks Copy Share
By doing what I do, by just staying, pardon me, true to myself and maintaining my maverick position, unbranded, unbought in a corporate sense, I've managed to migrate to and participate in the work of people far younger than my own children. This astounds me. It makes me feel all at once, beyond retirement age, as a player in the… — Van Dyke Parks Copy Share
I realized I couldn't get bookings as a performing artist on the road, as it were, I could not make a living in music… — Van Dyke Parks Copy Share Image
You know, any sane magician would never reveal his method of deception. And I don't think that a sensible musician would either. — Van Dyke Parks Copy Share Image
I think that smoking is a very good thing to do - it's got the association with the Indians; it's a peaceable thing. But… — Van Dyke Parks Copy Share Image
To make a collaboration succeed there can be no visible contusions or abrasions. For the collaboration to succeed, the relationship must be nourished and… — Van Dyke Parks Copy Share Image
I notice that so many of my peers, aging ingénues, rock stars, are moving along in life into their wrinkles with an adoring audience… — Van Dyke Parks Copy Share Image
Eclectic is a word that appears almost as much as the word smarmy in rock journalism and I've come to the fact, just as… — Van Dyke Parks Copy Share Image
I don't want to give too much lugubrious thought to the gravitas of a coherent album. I don't want to develop a life of… — Van Dyke Parks Copy Share Image
