Top 61 Quotes About Carole King
#1. I was signed to A&M, I was signed to Lou Adler, who had a company within a company, which was A&M Records, and everything - James Taylor, Rita Coolidge, Carole King - I worked on all of that stuff.
Merry Clayton
#2. Since her landmark 'Tapestry,' Carole King has both oversimplified and over elaborated that masterful album's style until her music has become something more overtly but less effectively personal.
Jon Landau
#3. More than anything I want to get up there and hang out with the audience, make everybody feel like it's fun and they're involved and are just, like, friends hanging out in somebody's living room. I went to see Carole King on her 'Living Room' Tour, and that's the kind of feeling I'm aiming for.
Kate Voegele
#4. My inspirations include the Beatles - love, love, love them - Elton John, Carole King, and Stevie Wonder.
Gloria Estefan
#5. My dad is a huge folk music fan, so growing up, there were always records playing in my house. Carole King, James Taylor, Simon and Garfunkel, the Beatles - I grew up with this music, and I was aware of how special this music was to a lot of people.
Jake Epstein
#6. I was inspired by people like Joni Mitchell and Carole King and Stevie and "Storytellers." People that could really change the world with their lyric, no matter who sung the song, they had still been the source of that message. So that's what I really aim for.
Emeli Sande
#7. When I did 'Tapestry' with Carole King, the record was spare and simple, like a demo. If someone had told me to go back and put horns on it, it would've been all wrong. If you're enthusiastic enough to sign an artist, let them do what got you enthusiastic.
Lou Adler
#8. I grew up in the '70s, and I hear in my own stuff a lot of what I grew up listening to, which is to say I hear a lot of Billy Joel, Paul McCartney, Carole King, Joni Mitchell and Stevie Wonder.
Jason Robert Brown
#9. She could only write with him at night and she was wasting her days just sitting around. So he thought I could write with her during the day. And that was Carole King.
Cynthia Weil
#10. I love Radiohead, which most people don't expect, and I listen to everything from Stevie Wonder to Steely Dan, Carole King, The Beach Boys, The Kinks, Beyonce Knowles, Vampire Weekend, The Beatles, Joni Mitchell, Burt Bacharach, and Paul Simon.
Eliza Doolittle
#11. A person like Carole King could make up something, change it, and actually improve it.
Jules Shear
#12. Carole King is one of my dearest friends. We're like family.
Merry Clayton
#13. Having listened to great songwriters like James Taylor and Carole King, I felt there was nothing new that was coming out that really represented me and the way I felt. So I started writing my own stuff.
Amy Winehouse
#14. I wrote poetry, which got me into lyrics. Stevie Wonder, Carole King, Elton John pulled me into pop. I started singing with a band - just for fun - when I was 17. And pretty soon, I was thinking I could sing pop in English as well as Spanish.
Gloria Estefan
#15. Carole King is one of my all-time favorite songwriters.
Judith Hill
#17. I write heavily under the influence of James Taylor.
Carole King
#18. Now and forever, I'll remember all the promises still unbroken and think about all the words between us that never needed to be spoken.
Carole King
#19. The writing of You've Got a Friend was one of the most incredible experiences because it was mostly inspiration. It just came to me almost as we hear it.
Carole King
#20. Do the things you believe in, in the name of love. And know that, you aren't alone. We all have doubts and fears.
Carole King
#21. Not only do you want to leave the audience wanting more, you want to leave yourself wanting more.
Carole King
#22. It's very difficult for me to evaluate my own stuff.
Carole King
#23. Sensitive, humbug. Everybody thinks I'm sensitive. Wait until they hear my new album.
Carole King
#24. Doesn't anybody stay in one place any more?
Carole King
#25. That's one of the things I love about being a songwriter first, last and always, because whether I do it or not, if someone does a great job on it, my work is done.
Carole King
#26. There is a downside to having one of the biggest-selling albums ever.
Carole King
#27. I love that I wrote with all kinds of different people.
Carole King
#28. You can't talk to a man, with a shotgun in his hand.
Carole King
#29. In my career I have never felt that my being a woman was an obstacle or an advantage. I guess I've been oblivious.
Carole King
#30. Only love is real ... everything else is illusion
Carole King
#31. When I was younger, I was kind of fearless. I think it takes more courage to do things when you know more. I was completely naive, and I was like, why can't I do anything I want to do? You know, go for it.
Carole King
#32. I listen to both oldies and contemporary stations. I enjoy listening to current stuff because there's an energy to it that's inspiring.
Carole King
#33. Way over yonder is a place I have seen In a garden of wisdom from some long ago dream.
Carole King
#34. I'm really getting better at guitar. I'm not trapped behind a piano. You can get out and move with a guitar and still direct the band.
Carole King
#35. I just want to give it all that I got. I just don't want to waste it ...
Carole King
#36. Once the inspiration comes, that directs where the perspiration goes.
Carole King
#37. I still believe that everyone is beautiful in some way and by seeing the beauty in others we make ourselves more beautiful.
Carole King
#38. My parents always told me I could be anything I wanted to be.
Carole King
#39. Traveling around sure gets me down and lonely, nothing else to do but close my mind. I sure hope the road don't come to own me, there's so many dreams I've yet to find. But you're so far away.
Carole King
#41. My life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue, an everlasting vision of the ever changing view.
Carole King
#42. If there's any answer, maybe love can end the madness
Maybe not, oh, but we can only try.
Carole King
#43. It's a very worthy cause. This should happen, and I do believe that tenacity counts. Not going away matters.
Carole King
#45. I went to London and performed in Eric Clapton's concert at the Royal Albert Hall. I'll work with him any time he asks me.
Carole King
#46. Today's records, even though they may be lyrically repetitive and not saying anything particularly heavy, they have energy.
Carole King
#47. When my soul was in the lost-and-found
You came along to claim it.
Carole King
#48. Tonight the light of love is in your eyes,
But will you love me tomorrow?
Carole King
#49. The downside of videos is that it will put my vision in front of other people, so they might not get the chance to create their own.
Carole King
#52. I'm like a plant, I reach for the sun ...
Carole King
#53. It is very common with artists who are of a generation that has already gone by to get overly concerned with, Oh my God I have to sell to the younger generation.
Carole King
#54. I think Madonna has a great deal of intelligence and capability. I have a lot of respect for her. She's taken her career and maximized it with intelligence and creativity.
Carole King
#55. I just sort of try to be a good person; try to write music that lifts people and makes me feel good to sing.
Carole King
#58. I'd like to know that your love
Is love I can be sure of,
So tell me now and I won't ask again,
Will you still love me tomorrow?
Carole King
#59. Scary in the idea it could be a little overwhelming to have 70 or 100 clowns in a public space. Intriguing in that it could be something interesting. I'm up for any kind of public art.
Carole King
#60. Sometimes I get a lyric, and the lyric, you know, comes off the page, and goes into my brain and comes out with a melody. Other times, I may create a melody first.
Carole King
#61. One of the things that I try to be conscious about in crafting a song is the concept of bringing it home. I like to bring it somewhere familiar, someplace that people feel it's resolved, it's settled.
Carole King
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