Carly Simon Quotes

The historical importance of a composer does not always go hand in hand with the quality of their work.

Over in the UK, the music press can be brutal. They can say wonderful things about you one week, and the next week, you're in the can.

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

If the public likes you, you're good.

A legacy is a lot of times determined by how people accept your music. And sometimes people's legacy starts late or starts early, or they last a long time or a short amount of time. As a musician, I've never taken an approach of wanting to try to control that because I don't think that I can.

If your work is really successful, it should attract the audience to you beyond just the premier.

Good music will always be recognized in the end.

I could bear being in the charts and being on everyone's car radio 10 times a day. I'm just terrified of... a lot of people I respect have done it with a real little 'ditty' and that was the end of it - that was all they were ever known for.

If I'm a lousy writer, then an awful lot of people have lousy taste.

There will be four ancillary shows on the MyMusic channel, and we'll be updating an entire blog with up-to-the-minute music news. You can visit it like BuzzFeed or Pitchfork and get album reviews. It's all as part of the sitcom experience, written by the characters.

I've been overlooked, praised, questioned, lauded, labeled, celebrated, and derided - sometimes all in the span of a single week. That's life in the NFL.

People want to dethrone you from the pedestal that you're on when you have a platform, when you have a voice.

We didn't know it was going to be a career - it was just a lot of fun. We were known as the bimbo band and never expected to last.

People are more willing to dislike your music and want to find faults in you when you are given opportunities like in my case. But I think in my case, people love my work and that's why I have to work doubly hard.

Hey, I've done a lot of other things, but I'm also very aware that when I kick the bucket, the first paragraph will be, 'The man responsible for 'Frampton Comes Alive!' just dropped dead. Frampton Drops Dead! after coming alive all these years.'

To be a legend, we have to make a lot of right moves and great music.

I don't really have anything nice to say about pop-country radio.

People seem to think that I'm not aware of how people perceive me. But I'm the one that has to talk about 'Police Academy' all day long 27 years later. I'm totally aware of it.

I hate that my opinions are gonna be on record... that my opinions of other artists are going to be on record.

If you are a plumber, there is an objective way to establish whether you put together a great piping system or not. Art is a bit more slippery than that.

My album is better than 'Sgt. Pepper.'

It doesn't really bother us, the team that is in fashion or that is being talked about the most. Whatever praise or criticism we receive doesn't really matter.

When we were unknown, you don't get a lot of bad feedback. Now, we get people bad-mouthing us all the time, but it's all part of the game.

I don't want to be known for only making ratchet music.

People bashed Drake based off the fact that he didn't suffer. Who cares! Do you like the music or not?