Carly Simon Quotes

• A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.

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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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• 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 always think it’s interesting to dig a little bit deeper every time you go to someplace that seems like a revelation or a strong connection to an emotional truth.

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• No, because I’ve never really changed my style that much.

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• Well, I tried to get a record deal in 1966 or ’67, and everyone thought I was too eclectic.

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• My look was even more solidified when I started singing in Greenwich Village with my sister Lucy. We wore matching dresses as the Simon Sisters.

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• So I suppose this slightly mature fashion sense happened because of what I had.

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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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• Sometimes, but the year I lived in France I started to write songs.

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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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• My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything.

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• As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me.

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• We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big.

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• I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren’t as easy to sing.

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  Tags in Myself, Easy

• But when we listened to the radio, it was Bill Haley and the Comets or the Everly Brothers.

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  Tags in Brother, Comet

• I’m still more comfortable with standards than with my own songs.

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• It didn’t matter as much because I’m a singer, not an actress, but my face is more acceptable in a way now than when I first came on the scene, because I’m part black.

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• Well, I make every song I sing personal. I’ve never chosen a song that wasn’t.

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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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  Tags in Speak, Terrible

Carly Simon (39)

Birth:	25th June, 1945
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Lyricist, Singer

About

Carly Simon was born in New York City. She is an American   singer-songwriter. After a brief stint with her sister Lucy Simon as duo group the Simon Sisters, she found great success as a solo artist with her 1971 self-titled debut album Carly Simon, which won her the Grammy Award for Best New Artist, and spawned her first Top 10 single "That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be". Simon achieved international fame with her breakthrough album No Secrets which sat firmly at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 for 5 weeks, and spawned the worldwide hit "You're So Vain", for which she received two Grammy nominations, including Record of the Year. She was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1994, inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame for "You're So Vain" in 2004, and awarded the ASCAP Founders Award in 2012.

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