#th

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

#bit #connection #deeper #dig #emotional

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

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

— Carly Simon

#do you know #done #how #i #know

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

I'm still more comfortable with standards than with my own songs. ↗

— Carly Simon

#i #more #my own #own #songs

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

— Carly Simon

#classical #everything #father #just #mother

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