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Top 15 Carla Bley Quotes (2025 Update)

Carla Bley Quote: “I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.”

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

Carla Bley Quote: “What’s interesting about a person without problems?”

2. “What’s interesting about a person without problems?”

Carla Bley Quote: “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.”

3. “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 Quote: “It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.”

4. “It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.”

Carla Bley Quote: “Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.”

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

Carla Bley Quote: “I don’t think you can ever regain your ignorance.”

6. “I don’t think you can ever regain your ignorance.”

Carla Bley Quote: “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.”

7. “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 Quote: “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.”

8. “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 Quote: “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.”

9. “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 Quote: “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.”

10. “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 Quote: “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.”

11. “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 Quote: “I don’t need much coaxing.”

12. “I don’t need much coaxing.”

Carla Bley Quote: “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.”

13. “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 Quote: “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.”

14. “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 Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

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