Carly Simon Quotes

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

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.

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

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

The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind.

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

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.

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

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

My scar is beautiful. It looks like an arrow.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

But I'm lost when it comes to you.

I haven't got time for the pain.

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.

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.

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

Undoubtedly, Patsy Cline was a trailblazer and in that respect, all women who are singular in a man's field have a special power.

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

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