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I'm still more comfortable with standards than with my own songs.
Carly Simon
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Carly Simon
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: June 25
Actor
Composer
Guitarist
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Singer
Singer-Songwriter
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The Bronx
New York City
Carly Elisabeth Simon
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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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We need role models who are going to break the mold.
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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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So I suppose this slightly mature fashion sense happened because of what I had.
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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, 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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Then I went through a big Peggy Lee stage, then I became Annie Ross, then Judy Collins.
Carly Simon
The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.
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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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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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Everyone has problems, and learning to share them is essential. Hiding pain requires an enormous amount of energy sharing it is liberating.
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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.
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Don't mind if I fall apart. There's more room in a broken heart.
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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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My scar is beautiful. It looks like an arrow.
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.
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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.
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.
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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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