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 slavery to a large topic. I want to throw out some singles and that's what I'm… — 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,… — Van Dyke Parks Copy Share Image
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
