Quotes by Carla Bley - Page 1

I write very slowly.
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Slowly
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I don't need much coaxing.
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I don't think you can ever regain your ignorance.
Carla Bley / Composer
Ignorance
Songwriting
Thinking
Regain
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What's interesting about a person without problems?
Carla Bley / Composer
Music
Interesting
Jazz
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I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.
Carla Bley / Composer
Music
Chords
Jazz
Lush
Taken
Parts
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Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.
Carla Bley / Composer
Bakers
Mulligans
Sophisticated
Baker
Gerry
Seemed
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It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.
Carla Bley / Composer
Political
Serious
Today
Would Be
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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 / Composer
Bebop
Circles
Full Circle
Prefer
Circle
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I dont enjoy traveling in America. I dont like the food, the cars. It is not exotic enough. It all tastes a bit like airline food.
Carla Bley / Composer
Car
America
Exotic
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I don't enjoy traveling in America. I don't like the food, the cars. It is not exotic enough. It all tastes a bit like airline food.
Carla Bley / Composer
Airline
Exotic
Tastes
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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.
Carla Bley / Composer
Horns
Horny
People
Play
Solo
Chord
Fullest
Richest
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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 / Composer
Rocks
World
Worthwhile
Best Music World
Happening
Rock
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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 / Composer
Art
Band
Music Is
Art Music Myself
Ad
Blues
Performer
Softly
Whose
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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.
Carla Bley / Composer
Band
Banner
France
Keys
Stars
Arrangement
Minor
Spangled
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I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free. Instead of learning to walk, you learn to play the piano.
Carla Bley / Composer
Teacher
Father
Lessons
Years
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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 / Composer
Important
Listening
Receiving
Anything Else
Music Important Listening
Sending
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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.
Carla Bley / Composer
Band
Talent
Writing
Big Band
Composers
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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 / Composer
Music
Teacher
Jazz
Listening
Live Music
Records
Absorb
Studying
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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.
Carla Bley / Composer
Gallery
Jazz
Play
World
Best World End
In The End
Listener
Note
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