Carla Bley Quotes

• When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.

  Carla Bley

  Music, Teacher, Listening

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• What's interesting about a person without problems?

  Carla Bley

  Music, Interesting, Jazz

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• I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.

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  Music, Taken, Jazz

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• I don't think you can ever regain your ignorance.

  Carla Bley

  Ignorance, Thinking, Songwriting

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• Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.

  Carla Bley

  Listening, Important, Receiving

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• Empecé a los 3 años porque mi padre era profesor de música y las clases me salían gratis. En vez de aprender a andar, aprendes a tocar el piano.

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  Teacher, Father, Years

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• Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.

  Carla Bley

  Bakers, Sophisticated, Mulligans

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• I still prefer the bebop of the '40s. The very stuff I started out with is still the best to me. I have come full circle.

  Carla Bley

  Circles, Bebop, Full Circle

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• When Ronald Reagan was elected I was on a bus traveling with a band in France. I wrote a little arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner in a minor key.

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  Stars, Keys, Band

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• I don't need much coaxing.

  Carla Bley

  Necesita

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• When you have 13 horns, and one is soloing, you have 12 people to play the richest, fullest chord you could ever imagine behind that solo.

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  Play, People, Horny

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• There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.

  Carla Bley

  Rocks, World, Worthwhile

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• It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.

  Carla Bley

  Political, Would Be, Today

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• One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.

  Carla Bley

  Art, Band, Music Is

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• I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.

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  Play, World, Jazz

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• No me gusta viajar por Estados Unidos. No me gusta la comida, los coches. No es lo bastante exótica. Todo sabe un poco a comida de avión.

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  America, Car, Exotic

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• Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.

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  Writing, Band, Talent

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