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Carly Simon [1945-0] American

Rank: 102
Musician, Singer-songwriter

Carly Elisabeth Simon is an American singer-songwriter, musician and children's author. She first rose to fame in the 1970s with a string of hit records; her 13 Top 40 U.S. hits include "Anticipation", "You Belong To Me", "Coming Around Again", and her four Gold certified singles "Jesse", "Mockingbird", a duet with James Taylor, "You're So Vain", and "Nobody Does It Better" from the 1977 James Bond film, The Spy Who Loved Me.

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A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.	War	101
I took it to heart that in order to be a good person, you never said anything mean about anybody.		102
As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me.		103
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.		104
I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17.		105
We need role models who are going to break the mold.		106
I had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.		107
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.		108
You usually can't tell what's inspiring until you look back on it.		109
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.		110
You're lucky you had that when you were 20. I sure didn't. I was overweight, and I had acne.		111
Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four.		112
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.		113
We are in this period now where we all are trying to be in shape physically and deny ourselves any pleasure.		114
My scar is beautiful. It looks like an arrow.		115
I just want to show off my scar proudly and not be afraid of it.		116
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.		117
I'm still more comfortable with standards than with my own songs.		118
Well, I make every song I sing personal. I've never chosen a song that wasn't.		119
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.		120
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.		121
I think that I've got some pretty bad reviews on albums or songs that later proved themselves.		122
I think that most people really know if it's a really great album.		123
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.		124
No, because I've never really changed my style that much.		125
There was a French singer, Francoise Hardy - I used to look at her pictures and try to dress like her.		126
So I suppose this slightly mature fashion sense happened because of what I had.		201
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.		202
Well, I tried to get a record deal in 1966 or '67, and everyone thought I was too eclectic.		203
Sometimes, but the year I lived in France I started to write songs.		204
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.		205
Then I went through a big Peggy Lee stage, then I became Annie Ross, then Judy Collins.		206
My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything.		207
We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big.		208
But when we listened to the radio, it was Bill Haley and the Comets or the Everly Brothers.		209
I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing.		210
No, because I was always nervous about being onstage.		211
I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say.		212
The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.		213

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