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.
It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke. - Carla Bley
It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.
- Carla Bley
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 ke… - Carla Bley
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 ke…
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 lis… - Carla Bley
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 lis…
Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that. - Carla Bley
Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.
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
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.
I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out. - Carla Bley
I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.
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
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.
What's interesting about a person without problems? - Carla Bley
What's interesting about a person without problems?
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… - Carla Bley
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…
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