Quotes by Carly Simon

About Carly Simon:

Carly Elisabeth Simon is an American singer-songwriter, musician and children's author. She first rose to fame in the 1970s with a string of hit records; her 13 Top 40 U.S. hits include "Anticipation" (No. 13), "You Belong To Me" (No. 6), "Coming Around Again" (No. 18), and her four Gold certified singles "Jesse" (No. 11), "Mockingbird" (No. 5), a duet with James Taylor, "You're So Vain" (No. 1), and "Nobody Does It Better" (No. 2) from the 1977 James Bond film, The Spy Who Loved Me.
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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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I think that most people really know if it's a really great album.

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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 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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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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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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There was a French singer, Francoise Hardy - I used to look at her pictures and try to dress like her.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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I had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.

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Author Bio

  • NameCarly Simon
  • DescriptionAmerican singer-songwriter, musician and author
  • AliasesCarly Elisabeth Simon
  • BornJune 25, 1945
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSinger-songwriter; Singer; Composer; Songwriter
  • AwardsGrammy Award For Best New Artist