Carly Simon Quotes
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A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.
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Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four.
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My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything.
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One of the things that has always motivated me to write is the desire to get it out and look at it in an objective way, so that it doesn't cause me any serious pain by staying inside.
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My scar is beautiful. It looks like an arrow.
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Being in this business for as long as I've been in it, it's sort of like living in a town or a city before the war and then after the war and then during the reconstruction and then during the time that it sprawls out to the malls.
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You know, people want to honor me, and on the one hand I just don't want to be a poster child; but on the other, I want to do something classy and great - something where the residuals will go to the cause.
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No, because I was always nervous about being onstage.
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We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big.
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Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I would take a local poem and put that to music.
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There was a French singer, Francoise Hardy - I used to look at her pictures and try to dress like her.
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The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.
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Then I went through a big Peggy Lee stage, then I became Annie Ross, then Judy Collins.
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You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what I feel like - that part of the old is coming through the new.
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I think that I've got some pretty bad reviews on albums or songs that later proved themselves.
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We need role models who are going to break the mold.
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I remember being onstage once when I didn't have fear: I got so scared I didn't have fear that it brought on an anxiety attack.
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You're lucky you had that when you were 20. I sure didn't. I was overweight, and I had acne.
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I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17.
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I took it to heart that in order to be a good person, you never said anything mean about anybody.
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No, because I've never really changed my style that much.
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But when we listened to the radio, it was Bill Haley and the Comets or the Everly Brothers.
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Sometimes, but the year I lived in France I started to write songs.
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I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing.