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Checkout quotes by Carla Bley on Music

• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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'.

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• ‟ 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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