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

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

- 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, just as a personal side, this reminds…

- 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 thing. But like much else that the Indi…

- 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 corporate sense, I've m…

- 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 in music without going on the road, but …

- 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 of a vertical hierarchy. To be an a…

- 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 adoring audience that's aging as …

- 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 life of slavery to a large topic. I w…

- Van Dyke Parks