Carly Simon Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“But when we listened to the radio, it was Bill Haley and the Comets or the Everly Brothers.”

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

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

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

“No, because I was always nervous about being onstage.”