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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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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
Judy
Ross
Annie
Became
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Went
Bigs
Peggy
Collins

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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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There was a French singer, Francoise Hardy - I used to look at her pictures and try to dress like her.
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The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind.
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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 try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say.
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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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As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me.
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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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The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.
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Worrying too much about other people's ears and not my own, I lost my way.
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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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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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So I suppose this slightly mature fashion sense happened because of what I had.
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We need role models who are going to break the mold.
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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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All men are created equal and all women are created equal as well, but [equality] seems much clearer when it comes to race issues. In the realms of man/woman, man/man, woman/woman love, it seems all up for grabs now. We are exploring so much, but I think we gotta go for the fight for all equality first.
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