Carly Simon Quotes

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

  Carly Simon

  Want, Scar, Shows

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

  Carly Simon

  Strong Women, War, Being A Strong Woman

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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.

  Carly Simon

  Friendship, Pain, Energy

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• I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee.

  Carly Simon

  Dream, Coffee, Clouds

  Song: You're So Vain, Album: No Secrets, 1972

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

  Carly Simon

  Inspiring, Music, Looks

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• We need role models who are going to break the mold.

  Carly Simon

  Inspiration, Female Role Models, Mold

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

  Carly Simon

  Life, Dream, Painful Moments

  "Carly Simon charts new course with Brazilian-inspired CD" by Charles J.Gans, www.foxnews.com. May 08, 2008.

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• The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind.

  Carly Simon

  Bird, Mind, Sound

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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.

  Carly Simon

  Canvas, Paint, Feels

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• Well, I make every song I sing personal. I've never chosen a song that wasn't.

  Carly Simon

  Song, Wells, Chosen

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• Don't mind if I fall apart. There's more room in a broken heart.

  Carly Simon

  Fall, Heart, Broken

  Twitter post from Oct 10, 2013

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

  Carly Simon

  Voice, Clothes, Singers

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• I've learned that nobody's perfect, and I don't expect myself to be perfect anymore.

  Carly Simon

  Perfect, Nobody's Perfect, I've Learned

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• My scar is beautiful. It looks like an arrow.

  Carly Simon

  Beautiful, Arrows, Looks

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• I haven't got time for the pain.

  Carly Simon

  Pain, Sadness, Havens

  Song: Haven't Got Time For The Pain, Album: Hotcakes, 1974

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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.

  Carly Simon

  Beautiful, Eye, Stranger

  Twitter post from Aug 11, 2016

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

  Carly Simon

  Song, Writing, My Boyfriend

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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.

  Carly Simon

  Fear, Anxiety, Scared

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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.

  Carly Simon

  Stay Strong, Pain, Writing

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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.

  Carly Simon

  Years, Gone, Village

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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

  Relationship, Clouds, Two

  Song: That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be, Album: Carly Simon, 1971

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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.

  Carly Simon

  Fighting, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Anticipation is making me late, it's keeping me waiting.

  Carly Simon

  Waiting, Anticipation, Late

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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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  Trying, Dresses, Looks

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• 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

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