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I took it to heart that in order to be a good person you never said anything mean about anybody.

Carly Simon

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Carly Simon
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: June 25
Actor
Composer
Guitarist
Pianist
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
The Bronx
New York City
Carly Elisabeth Simon
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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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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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But I'm lost when it comes to you.
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The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.
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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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I'm still more comfortable with standards than with my own songs.
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Worrying too much about other people's ears and not my own, I lost my way.
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You're so vain. I bet you think this song is about you.
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You don't have to prove to me you're beautiful to strangers, I've got loving eyes of my own.
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It's like The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat, about the discovery of penicillin. Out of these strange accidents come huge discoveries. A certain purple bleeds into red and all of a sudden you have something unexpected.
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I haven't got time for the pain.
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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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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 try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say.
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The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind.
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I think that I've got some pretty bad reviews on albums or songs that later proved themselves.
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I had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.
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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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