27 Quotes by Carla Bley

I don't need much coaxing.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.