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Carly Simon

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No, because I was always nervous about being onstage.


— Carly Simon


#always #because #being #i #nervous

No, because I've never really changed my style that much.


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#changed #i #much #never #really

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


#any #cause #desire #get #inside

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


— Carly Simon


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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.


— Carly Simon


#i #local #lyrics #melody #music

Sometimes, but the year I lived in France I started to write songs.


— Carly Simon


#i #lived #sometimes #songs #started

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


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#me #models #more #singers #were

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


— Carly Simon


#became #big #collins #i #judy

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


— Carly Simon


#french #hardy #her #i #like

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


— Carly Simon


#deny #now #ourselves #period #physically






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The album was released via Iris Records. In the appearance Carly Simon sang two songs: "Half A Chance" and her signature song "You're So Vain". In 1991 Simon wrote her third children's book "The FiCarly Simonrman's Song" which was based on the song of the same name from her 1990 album Have You Seen Me Lately.

She rose to fame in the 1970s with a string of hit records; her 13 Top 40 hits include "You're So Vain" "Nobody Does It Better" and "Coming Around Again". She was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1994 and awarded the ASCAP Founders Award in 2012. Her 1988 song "Let the River Run" was the first to win a Grammy Award an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for a song written and performed by a single artist.

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