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Carly Simon quotes - page 2
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.
Carly Simon
Well, I make every song I sing personal. I've never chosen a song that wasn't.
Carly Simon
Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four.
Carly Simon
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.
Carly Simon
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.
Carly Simon
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.
Carly Simon
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.
Carly Simon
The time I enjoy music most is when it's not a performance. It's just trading instrumentals and finding that part in the song that you feel best singing.
Carly Simon
Music brought me closer to the idea of God...Music gave me the energy to revise, revive myself; renew, rebirth myself. It was a palliative, a relief.
Carly Simon
No, because I've never really changed my style that much.
Carly Simon
You're lucky you had that when you were 20. I sure didn't. I was overweight, and I had acne.
Carly Simon
Well, I tried to get a record deal in 1966 or '67, and everyone thought I was too eclectic.
Carly Simon
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.
Carly Simon
I think that most people really know if it's a really great album.
Carly Simon
Sometimes, but the year I lived in France I started to write songs.
Carly Simon
But when we listened to the radio, it was Bill Haley and the Comets or the Everly Brothers.
Carly Simon
No, because I was always nervous about being onstage.
Carly Simon
You know, that's so much a part of life, being able to embrace the broken heart, not just cast it off as having no meaning or trying to get rid of it. I think in the book gives a very good journey through the way I handled things that were desperately frightening for me.
Carly Simon
I grew up with lots of mystery in my house...I was always feeling on shaky ground when I was growing up. I didn't know what was what, and that led me to feel very insecure.
Carly Simon
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