Top 63 Carly Simon Quotes
#1. Giggling, I drifted into a rendition of You're so Vain by Carly Simon to Lost Cause from Beck, stopping after (I Hate) Everything About You by Ugly Kid Joe.
Nice, Grace. What was that a montage of how I feel about Shane songs?
Christine Zolendz
#2. Carly Simon abandoned the stage for seven years after collapsing from nerves before a concert in Pittsburgh in 1981. When she resumed performing, she would sometimes ask members of her band to spank her before she went onstage, to distract her from her anxiety.
Scott Stossel
#3. So many artists who came out during that time, including myself, were able to get on radio. New forms of singer-songwriters developed out of that.
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#4. You know, when I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1997 I realized I had spent too long arranging my attitude.
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#5. I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee.
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#6. You're so vain. I bet you think this song is about you.
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#7. 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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#8. We change our opinions of ourselves so often. What the outside world thinks is only a small part of our image.
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#9. 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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#10. You say we'll soar like two birds through the clouds, but soon you'll cage me on your shelf. I'll never learn to be just me, first by myself.
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#11. 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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#12. I took it to heart that in order to be a good person, you never said anything mean about anybody.
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#13. 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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#14. 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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#15. We are stardust, we are fallen and we've got to get back to the garden.
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#16. The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.
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#17. It's like The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat, about the discovery of penicillin. Out of these strange accidents come huge discoveries. A certain purple bleeds into red and all of a sudden you have something unexpected.
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#18. Sometimes, but the year I lived in France I started to write songs.
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#19. We need role models who are going to break the mold.
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#20. 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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#21. The advancements that women have made are very threatening to men in the job place. There haven't been that many women in politics. If you look at the conventions, it's kind of pathetic how many men are the heads of companies. On the other hand, I'm not sure what the reality should be.
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#22. I think that I've got some pretty bad reviews on albums or songs that later proved themselves.
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#23. As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me.
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#24. Don't mind if I fall apart. There's more room in a broken heart.
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#25. I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say.
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#26. Well, I tried to get a record deal in 1966 or '67, and everyone thought I was too eclectic.
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#27. You don't have to prove to me you're beautiful to strangers,
I've got loving eyes of my own..
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#28. We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big.
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#29. Everyone has problems, and learning to share them is essential. Hiding pain requires an enormous amount of energy; sharing it is liberating.
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#30. The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind.
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#31. So I suppose this slightly mature fashion sense happened because of what I had.
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#32. 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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#33. I think that most people really know if it's a really great album.
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#35. You usually can't tell what's inspiring until you look back on it.
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#36. 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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#37. I'm still more comfortable with standards than with my own songs.
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#38. No, because I've never really changed my style that much.
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#39. 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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#40. I grew up not understanding what was true and what was not true. It gave me a sense of unreality. I was told that this man [mom's lover] was not my mother's lover - when he was. I was told he was there as a male babysitter for my brother so that he would learn sports and other manly things.
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#41. A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.
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#42. There was a French singer, Francoise Hardy - I used to look at her pictures and try to dress like her.
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#43. Anticipation is making me late, it's keeping me waiting.
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#44. My scar is beautiful. It looks like an arrow.
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#45. 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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#46. I've learned that nobody's perfect, and I don't expect myself to be perfect anymore.
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#47. But when we listened to the radio, it was Bill Haley and the Comets or the Everly Brothers.
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#48. 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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#49. 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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#50. Worrying too much about other people's ears and not my own, I lost my way.
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#51. Undoubtedly, Patsy Cline was a trailblazer and in that respect, all women who are singular in a man's field have a special power.
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#52. I used the physical scar of my breast cancer operation, the scar that I have across my chest as a metaphor for all kinds of scars.
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#53. Well, I make every song I sing personal. I've never chosen a song that wasn't.
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#54. I just want to show off my scar proudly and not be afraid of it.
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#55. My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything.
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#56. No, because I was always nervous about being onstage.
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#58. Life is a dream even in its most painful moments, it's a dream that we can dance to.
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#59. I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17.
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#60. 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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#61. I had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.
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#62. I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing.
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#63. Then I went through a big Peggy Lee stage, then I became Annie Ross, then Judy Collins.
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