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Carly Simon is an American singer-songwriter and musician, acclaimed for her heartfelt lyrics and distinctive voice. Her breakthrough came in the 1970s with hits like "You're So Vain" and "Anticipation." She continues to inspire generations with her influential contributions to pop and rock music. Here are 47 of her quotes:

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. (Carly Simon)
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. View quote
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Well, I make every song I sing personal. I've never chosen a song that wasn't. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I pretended I was Cat Stevens. I started out with very Cat Stevensy chords, very abrupt. I was so stuck in the moment of being fearful so as a lesson to myself I said: ‘but we can never know about the days to come'. I didn't know when the door-bell was going to ring. I liked that. It was all of a sudden a quarter to eight and I had written the whole song. (Carly Simon)
No, because I've never really changed my style that much. View quote
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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. View quote
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Well, I tried to get a record deal in 1966 or '67, and everyone thought I was too eclectic. View quote
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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. View quote
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I think that most people really know if it's a really great album. View quote
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Sometimes, but the year I lived in France I started to write songs. View quote
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But when we listened to the radio, it was Bill Haley and the Comets or the Everly Brothers. View quote
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No, because I was always nervous about being onstage. View quote
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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. View quote
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Fear came in so much in my life that it did everything but completely stop me. When I was a little girl, I so wanted to be sociable, but I was scared that I wasn't going to be able to speak a sentence because I had such a bad stammer... (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. View quote
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Occupation: American Musician
Born: June 25, 1943
Quotes count: 47
Wikipedia: Carly Simon

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