Quotes by Carla Bley

When you have 13 horns, and one is soloing, you have 12 people to play...

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When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or...

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When Ronald Reagan was elected I was on a bus traveling with a band in...

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There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world,...

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One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer....

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Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not...

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Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing...

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

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I write very slowly.

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I still prefer the bebop of the '40s. The very stuff I started out with...

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

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I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at...

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