top of page
.png){kind=small}
"It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Today quotes
"The time is now. What you have to do, do it now."
"You have time to do what needs to be done."
"Today, you can take an action that will lead you closer to your visions."
"The best of today lays a great foundation for tomorrow."
Explore more quotes by Carla Bley
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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'."
"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 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."
"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 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."
bottom of page