Listen for his insights into the music and landscapes, but also his quieter, funny asides.
She said he was "quiet, gently funny and patient".
"He's quiet and funny, in his own little way.
"The Martin I know is quiet, genial, funny, courteous, extremely easy to get on with," says Nicholas Hytner, the artistic director of the National Theatre in London, who staged the first production of "The Cripple of Inishmaan," in 1997.
It also played "O Pato" ("The Duck") — made famous 50 years ago by the bossa nova singer João Gilberto — which was counterintuitively cool: a huge version, booming with horn punches, of a quiet, dryly funny song.
Family, friends and colleagues described Castile as a quiet but funny man who cherished his job.
Every week, that were so many events that the series had little time for tender, quiet, or funny moments that didn't directly forward the plot.
The Walkmen, it turns out, are a group too bright and, in their quiet way, too funny to be much interested in any traditional appearance of cool.
When I ask Murfi how he would describe Walsh to someone who had never met him, he says: "Gentle, mannerly, funny, quiet – although, if pressed, he might sing a Neil Diamond song for you at a party".
