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You're lucky you had that when you were 20. I sure didn't. I was overweight, and I had acne. ↗

— Carly Simon

#had #i #lucky #overweight #sure

When I began making my own albums, the songs became funkier. They were more about the streets. ↗

— Paul Simon

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Artie travels all the time. The rehearsals were just miserable. Artie and I fought all the time. He didn't want to do the show with my band; he just wanted me on acoustic guitar. ↗

— Paul Simon

#acoustic guitar #artie #band #fought #guitar

I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives. ↗

— Paul Simon

#elements #his #i #life #lives

We just did what we'd done when we were an act in the '60s. But I found it impossible to hold a dialogue with 500,000 people. In a certain sense, it was numbing. ↗

— Paul Simon

#certain #dialogue #did #done #found

At school my boobs were bigger than all my friends' and I was afraid to show them. Now, I feel they make my outfits look better. They're like an accessory. ↗

— Jessica Simpson

#afraid #better #bigger #boobs #feel

There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were. ↗

— Nina Simone

#heroes #heroines #knowing #not knowing #people

When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist. ↗

— Nina Simone

#become #black #choices #classic #classical

You were doing a sadistic little disservice to your country. ↗

— Alan K. Simpson

#disservice #doing #little #sadistic #were

I knew that people were going to talk about it, I knew it was embarrassing, and I knew it was a big deal. But did I think that it was going to be this thing that followed me for, you know, the next years to come? I guarantee you, 25 years from now, I'll be known as the girl that lip synced on 'SNL.' But, you know, it was a weird thing. Not fun. ↗

— Ashlee Simpson

#big #big deal #come #deal #did