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"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."
"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."
"Music heard so deeplyThat it is not heard at all, butyou are the musicWhile the music lasts."
"I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation."
"Music is the primordial language of life. That is why we love it so much. Actually every animal can hear and understand music better than we do."
Explore more quotes by Carla Bley
"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."
"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 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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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