Carly Simon Quotes

• No, because I was always nervous about being onstage.

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• I’ve gone through the village of my songwriting and my artistry, and I’ve gone through lots of different phases, including one where it has been very quiet and abandoned me for a few years.

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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 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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• We need role models who are going to break the mold.

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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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• We are in this period now where we all are trying to be in shape physically and deny ourselves any pleasure.

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• I had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.

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• I just want to show off my scar proudly and not be afraid of it.

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• My scar is beautiful. It looks like an arrow.

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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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• 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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• I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say.

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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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• I think that most people really know if it’s a really great album.

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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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• I think that I’ve got some pretty bad reviews on albums or songs that later proved themselves.

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• The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the ’60s and ’70s.

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• You usually can’t tell what’s inspiring until you look back on it.

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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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