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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

#attack #being #brought #fear #got

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

— Carly Simon

#anybody #anything #good #good person #heart

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. ↗

— Carly Simon

#canvas #coming #discover #feel #i

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

— Carly Simon

#classical #everything #father #just #mother

No, because I was always nervous about being onstage. ↗

— Carly Simon

#always #because #being #i #nervous

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

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

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

— Carly Simon

#big #jazz #musical #musical theater #see

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

— Carly Simon

#every #i #make #never #personal

Well, I tried to get a record deal in 1966 or '67, and everyone thought I was too eclectic. ↗

— Carly Simon

#eclectic #everyone #get #i #i tried