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1. "Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that." ~ Carla Bley
2. "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
3. "I don't need much coaxing." ~ Carla Bley
4. "I write very slowly." ~ Carla Bley
5. "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
6. "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
7. "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
8. "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
9. "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
10. "I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out." ~ Carla Bley
11. "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
12. "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

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