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I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee.
Carly Simon
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Carly Simon
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: June 25
Actor
Composer
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Singer
Singer-Songwriter
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The Bronx
New York City
Carly Elisabeth Simon
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You usually can't tell what's inspiring until you look back on it.
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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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I've always thought of myself as being a warrior. When you actually have a battle, it's better than when you don't know who to fight.
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I've learned that nobody's perfect, and I don't expect myself to be perfect anymore.
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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.
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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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There was a French singer, Francoise Hardy - I used to look at her pictures and try to dress like her.
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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.
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You're so vain. I bet you think this song is about you.
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I'm still more comfortable with standards than with my own songs.
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Then I went through a big Peggy Lee stage, then I became Annie Ross, then Judy Collins.
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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.
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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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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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I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say.
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The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.
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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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Life is a dream even in its most painful moments, it's a dream that we can dance to.
Carly Simon
Worrying too much about other people's ears and not my own, I lost my way.
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.
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