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I listen to both oldies and contemporary stations. I enjoy listening to current stuff because there's an energy to it that's inspiring.
Carole King
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You've got to get up every morning with a smile on your face
And show the world all the love in your heart.
Carole King
3.
When my soul was in the lost-and-found
You came along to claim it.
Carole King
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I'm like a plant, I reach for the sun.
Carole King
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I still believe that everyone is beautiful in some way and by seeing the beauty in others we make ourselves more beautiful.
Carole King
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Do the things you believe in, in the name of love. And know that, you aren't alone. We all have doubts and fears.
Carole King
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My life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue, an everlasting vision of the ever changing view.
Carole King
8.
Not only do you want to leave the audience wanting more, you want to leave yourself wanting more.
Carole King
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It's a very worthy cause. This should happen, and I do believe that tenacity counts. Not going away matters.
Carole King
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When I was younger, I was kind of fearless. I think it takes more courage to do things when you know more. I was completely naive, and I was like, why can't I do anything I want to do? You know, go for it.
Carole King
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Tonight the light of love is in your eyes,
But will you love me tomorrow?
Carole King
12.
The writing of You've Got a Friend was one of the most incredible experiences because it was mostly inspiration. It just came to me almost as we hear it.
Carole King
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Once the inspiration comes, that directs where the perspiration goes.
Carole King
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Only love is real...everything else is illusion
Carole King
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Way over yonder is a place I have seen In a garden of wisdom from some long ago dream.
Carole King
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In my career I have never felt that my being a woman was an obstacle or an advantage. I guess I've been oblivious.
Carole King
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You're beautiful as you feel.
Carole King
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If there's any answer, maybe love can end the madness
Maybe not, oh, but we can only try.
Carole King
19.
Eric Clapton is my dream guitarist.
Carole King
20.
I just sort of try to be a good person; try to write music that lifts people and makes me feel good to sing.
Carole King
21.
I went to the High School for Performing Arts in New York for acting. I've studied it on and off for years and have done some theater and film.
Carole King
22.
Sensitive, humbug. Everybody thinks I'm sensitive. Wait until they hear my new album.
Carole King
23.
I'm a songwriter first...In my career I have never felt that my being a woman was an obstacle or an advantage. I guess I've been oblivious...Sensitive, humbug. Everybody thinks I'm sensitive...There is a downside to having one of the biggest-selling albums ever.
Carole King
24.
You can't talk to a man, with a shotgun in his hand.
Carole King
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I'm a songwriter first.
Carole King
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Now my tapestry's unraveling.
Carole King
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You make me feel like a natural man
Carole King
28.
I think Madonna has a great deal of intelligence and capability. I have a lot of respect for her. She's taken her career and maximized it with intelligence and creativity.
Carole King
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One of the things that I try to be conscious about in crafting a song is the concept of bringing it home. I like to bring it somewhere familiar, someplace that people feel it's resolved, it's settled.
Carole King
30.
Scary in the idea it could be a little overwhelming to have 70 or 100 clowns in a public space. Intriguing in that it could be something interesting. I'm up for any kind of public art.
Carole King
31.
I'd like to know that your love Is love I can be sure of.
Carole King
32.
Sometimes I get a lyric, and the lyric, you know, comes off the page, and goes into my brain and comes out with a melody. Other times, I may create a melody first.
Carole King
33.
I'm really getting better at guitar. I'm not trapped behind a piano. You can get out and move with a guitar and still direct the band.
Carole King
34.
The downside of videos is that it will put my vision in front of other people, so they might not get the chance to create their own.
Carole King
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I went to London and performed in Eric Clapton's concert at the Royal Albert Hall. I'll work with him any time he asks me.
Carole King
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That's one of the things I love about being a songwriter first, last and always, because whether I do it or not, if someone does a great job on it, my work is done.
Carole King
37.
Now and forever, I'll remember all the promises still unbroken and think about all the words between us that never needed to be spoken.
Carole King
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I'd like to know that your love
Is love I can be sure of,
So tell me now and I won't ask again,
Will you still love me tomorrow?
Carole King
39.
I love that I wrote with all kinds of different people.
Carole King
40.
Today's records, even though they may be lyrically repetitive and not saying anything particularly heavy, they have energy.
Carole King
41.
Traveling around sure gets me down and lonely, nothing else to do but close my mind. I sure hope the road don't come to own me, there's so many dreams I've yet to find. But you're so far away.
Carole King
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I didn't want to be an artist.
Carole King
43.
It's very difficult for me to evaluate my own stuff.
Carole King
44.
It is very common with artists who are of a generation that has already gone by to get overly concerned with, Oh my God I have to sell to the younger generation.
Carole King
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I used to hate the sound of my voice.
Carole King
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I write heavily under the influence of James Taylor.
Carole King
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I just want to give it all that I got. I just don't want to waste it.
Carole King
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Doesn't anybody stay in one place any more?
Carole King
