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Carly Simon

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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

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 always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing.


— Carly Simon


#because #easy #i #i always #myself

I had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.


— Carly Simon


#i #mastectomy #then

I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17.


— Carly Simon


#i #properly #really #speak #stammer

I just want to show off my scar proudly and not be afraid of it.


— Carly Simon


#i #just #off #proudly #scar

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

A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.


— Carly Simon


#ennobled #her #really #scars #she






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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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