Carly Simon famous quotes

I just want to show off my scar proudly and not be afraid of it.
-- Carly Simon

#Want #Scar #Shows

A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.
-- Carly Simon

#Strong Women #War #Scar

I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee.
-- Carly Simon

#Dream #Coffee #Clouds

The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind.
-- Carly Simon

#Bird #Mind #Sound

Everyone has problems, and learning to share them is essential. Hiding pain requires an enormous amount of energy; sharing it is liberating.
-- Carly Simon

#Friendship #Pain #Energy

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.
-- Carly Simon

#Years #Different #Gone

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.
-- Carly Simon

#Children #Hands #People

As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me.
-- Carly Simon

#Voice #Clothes #Singers

There was a French singer, Francoise Hardy - I used to look at her pictures and try to dress like her.
-- Carly Simon

#Trying #Dresses #Looks

We are in this period now where we all are trying to be in shape physically and deny ourselves any pleasure.
-- Carly Simon

#Trying #Shapes #Pleasure

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...I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing.
-- Carly Simon

#Song #Writing #My Boyfriend

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.
-- Carly Simon

#Cancer #Fighting #Warrior

You usually can't tell what's inspiring until you look back on it.
-- Carly Simon

#Music #Looks

We need role models who are going to break the mold.
-- Carly Simon

#Inspiration #Role Models #Mold

I think that I've got some pretty bad reviews on albums or songs that later proved themselves.
-- Carly Simon

#Song #Thinking #Albums

My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything.
-- Carly Simon

#Mother #Father #Singers

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.
-- Carly Simon

#Strong #Emotional #Thinking

Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four.
-- Carly Simon

#Years #Done #Four

We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big.
-- Carly Simon

#Musical #Jazz #Theater

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.
-- Carly Simon

#Sister #Singing #Dresses

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.
-- Carly Simon

#Discovery #Purple #Magic

So I suppose this slightly mature fashion sense happened because of what I had.
-- Carly Simon

#Fashion #Mature

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.
-- Carly Simon

#War #Cities #Long

I had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.
-- Carly Simon

#Mastectomy

I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing.
-- Carly Simon

#Song #Easy #Standards

I'm still more comfortable with standards than with my own songs.
-- Carly Simon

#Song #Standards #Stills

I haven't got time for the pain.
-- Carly Simon

#Pain #Sadness

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

#Relationship #Clouds #Two

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.
-- Carly Simon

#Black #Singers #Matter

The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.
-- Carly Simon

#Rocks #Singers #Folks

Then I went through a big Peggy Lee stage, then I became Annie Ross, then Judy Collins.
-- Carly Simon

#Annie #Bigs #Stage

We change our opinions of ourselves so often. What the outside world thinks is only a small part of our image.
-- Carly Simon

#Thinking #World #Opinion

But I'm lost when it comes to you.
-- Carly Simon

#Love #Lost

Life is a dream even in its most painful moments, it's a dream that we can dance to.
-- Carly Simon

#Life #Dream #Painful

I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say.
-- Carly Simon

#Thinking #Trying #Peculiar

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.
-- Carly Simon

#Cancer #Scar #Kind

I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17.
-- Carly Simon

#Speak #Terrible

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.
-- Carly Simon

#Anxiety #Anxiety Attacks #Scared

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.
-- Carly Simon

#Stay Strong #Pain #Writing

You're so vain. I bet you think this song is about you.
-- Carly Simon

#Song #Thinking #Popular Song

My scar is beautiful. It looks like an arrow.
-- Carly Simon

#Beautiful #Arrows #Looks

Anticipation is making me late, it's keeping me waiting.
-- Carly Simon

#Waiting #Anticipation

He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not only does the punishment not fit the crime, but the mandatory minimums don't give judges any discretion to look at the background of the case, to read into the specifics of the case. I don't know a judge who really is in favor of the mandatory minimums.
-- Carly Simon

#Years #Punishment #Giving

You don't have to prove to me you're beautiful to strangers, I've got loving eyes of my own..
-- Carly Simon

#Beautiful #Eye #Stranger

Worrying too much about other people's ears and not my own, I lost my way.
-- Carly Simon

#People #Worry #Ears

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

#Heart #Mean #Order