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The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind.

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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Birds
Noise
Bird
Sound
Mind

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I haven't got time for the pain.
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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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As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came 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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We need role models who are going to break the mold.
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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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Life is a dream even in its most painful moments, it's a dream that we can dance to.
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But I'm lost when it comes to you.
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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 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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Worrying too much about other people's ears and not my own, I lost my way.
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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 had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.
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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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You're so vain. I bet you think this song is about you.
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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 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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There was a French singer, Francoise Hardy - I used to look at her pictures and try to dress like her.
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