There’s always that peculiar thing that rescues you, the thing that’s so hard to name. If I were to locate and then identify all the hellish things we all have to go through in life in order to uncover one minute of happiness, it would take up a lot of space.

— Carly Simon

Carly Simon Quotes

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

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

— Carly Simon

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

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

— Carly Simon

My scar is beautiful. It looks like an arrow.

— Carly Simon

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

— Carly Simon

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

— Carly Simon

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

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

— Carly Simon

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

— Carly Simon

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

— Carly Simon

I had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.

— Carly Simon

The advancements that women have made are very threatening to men in the job place. There haven’t been that many women in politics. If you look at the conventions, it’s kind of pathetic how many men are the heads of companies. On the other hand, I’m not sure what the reality should be.

— Carly Simon

We are stardust, we are fallen and we’ve got to get back to the garden.

— Carly Simon

Let all the dreamers wake the nation.

— Carly Simon

We were enough with ourselves and our enormous little lives.

— Carly Simon

If I were to locate and then identify all the hellish things we all have to go through in life in order to uncover one minute of happiness, it would take up a lot of space.

— Carly Simon

Besides, as Mark Twain once said, “Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

— Carly Simon

There’s always that peculiar thing that rescues you, the thing that’s so hard to name. If I were to locate and then identify all the hellish things we all have to go through in life in order to uncover one minute of happiness, it would take up a lot of space.

— Carly Simon

We all listened to and loved the Stones, the Beatles, Cat Stevens, Nina Simone, Neil Young, Bonnie Raitt, Aretha, sixties Motown, Andreas.

— Carly Simon
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