Carly Simon Quotes

A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars. 
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I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing. 
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I always think it's interesting to dig a little bit deeper every time you go to someplace that seems like a revelation or a strong connection to an emotional truth. 
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I had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo. 
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I remember being onstage once when I didn't have fear: I got so scared I didn't have fear that it brought on an anxiety attack. 
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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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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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It didn't matter as much because I'm a singer, not an actress, but my face is more acceptable in a way now than when I first came on the scene, because I'm part black. 
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My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything. 
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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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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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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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Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I would take a local poem and put that to music. 
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The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s. 
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We need role models who are going to break the mold. 
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Well, I make every song I sing personal. I've never chosen a song that wasn't. 
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Well, I tried to get a record deal in 1966 or '67, and everyone thought I was too eclectic. 
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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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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're lucky you had that when you were 20. I sure didn't. I was overweight, and I had acne. 
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