Carly Simon

Music gave me the energy to revise, revive myself; renew, rebirth myself. It was a palliative, a relief.

There was a lot of charm in just living in a big family compound of a house. My two uncles, who were into jazz, lived in the basement, and one of them, Uncle Peter, taught me my first songs on the ukulele.

Fear came in so much in my life that it did everything but completely stop me.

I think when you get married, it’s not a totally free ride – it’s not without its unglamorous periods and its fights and its angry noons and silent dawns or vice-versa.

As a child I used to read Gone with the Wind over and over again. I wanted to be Scarlett O’Hara. I never wanted to believe that it was possible that there could be infidelity. I never wanted to be believe that it was even possible for a man to look another way, even for a moment. My bubble of monogamy was pierced in a harsh way.

You can repeat the mistakes of your parents’ marriage or you can go out of your way not to repeat them.

I’m a product of pop culture.

Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

There is no truth. There is only perception.

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it.

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

Whatever it is, people who have more spare time than people ever had before get the sense of whirlwind pressure,and repeat the common criticism that ‘we are going too fast.’ Yet the people live longer than ever before, live with less effort, live on a higher plane. Is it possible that this common saying about our rapid pace is just another thoughtless mob suggestion?

My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we’re living with right now.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

Instead of being ashamed of what you’ve been through, be proud of what you have overcome!

I just want people to take a step back, take a deep breath and actually look at something with a different perspective. But most people will never do that.

Trouble with the world today is people don’t go to children enough. I don’t like old people. I stay away from them.

To do more for the world than the world does for you – that is success.

We want to have something of everything-we have types of every sort of wagon and carriage ever used in this country, from the covered wagon of the pioneer to the last style of buggy. We have nearly every type of agricultural instrument, every type of musical instrument, we have all kinds and sorts of furniture and household effects. One of these days the collection will have its own museum at Dearborn, and there we shall reproduce the life of the country in its every age.

You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.

Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. Warm southern wind, blow softly here. Green sod above, lie light, lie light. Good night, dear Heart, Good night, good night.