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 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
Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.
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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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I don't need much coaxing.
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It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.
Carla Bley
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