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 Copy Share Image
One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and… — Carla Bley Copy Share Image
I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free. Instead of learning… — Carla Bley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I still prefer the bebop of the '40s. The very stuff I started out with is still the best to me. I have come… — Carla Bley Copy Share Image
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… — Carla Bley Copy Share Image
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… — Carla Bley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When Ronald Reagan was elected I was on a bus traveling with a band in France. I wrote a little arrangement of The Star… — Carla Bley Copy Share Image
Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent… — Carla Bley Copy Share Image
It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke. — Carla Bley Copy Share Image
