#he

As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me. ↗

— Carly Simon

#clothes #eventually #hats #i #i tried

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. ↗

— Carly Simon

#been #before #being #business #city

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

— Carly Simon

#brothers #everly #haley #listened #radio

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

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

— Carly Simon

#classical #everything #father #just #mother

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

A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving of your anger, your empathy. ↗

— David Simon

#anger #behalf #deserving #empathy #good

It's been said that no man is a hero to a newspaperman, and I spent too many years as an ink-stained wretch. ↗

— David Simon

#hero #i #man #many #newspaperman

The trick to making a story matter is that every now and then, somebody you care about has to go. If it's somebody that you don't care about, then it doesn't really have - the stakes aren't there. But if you do that every now and then, then the story matters to people. And there are actual stakes involved, emotional stakes. ↗

— David Simon

#actual #care #emotional #every #go