Van Dyke Parks

Well, to me, the tensile strength and the very definition of an artist is something that I would place at the top…

— Van Dyke Parks

By doing what I do, by just staying, pardon me, true to myself and maintaining my maverick position, unbranded, unbought in a…

— Van Dyke Parks

I realized I couldn't get bookings as a performing artist on the road, as it were, I could not make a living…

— Van Dyke Parks

The older I get, the better I was.

— Van Dyke Parks

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

I think that smoking is a very good thing to do - it's got the association with the Indians; it's a peaceable…

— Van Dyke Parks

To make a collaboration succeed there can be no visible contusions or abrasions. For the collaboration to succeed, the relationship must be…

— Van Dyke Parks

I notice that so many of my peers, aging ingénues, rock stars, are moving along in life into their wrinkles with an…

— Van Dyke Parks

Eclectic is a word that appears almost as much as the word smarmy in rock journalism and I've come to the fact,…

— Van Dyke Parks

I don't want to give too much lugubrious thought to the gravitas of a coherent album. I don't want to develop a…

— Van Dyke Parks