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What's interesting about a person without problems? — Carla Bley

Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that. — Carla Bley

In the world in which we live, truth is an ancillary virtue, but it shouldn't be. — Jonathan Dimbleby

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

Compared to what some of the young comics use for material today, I'm a priest. — Don Rickles

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. — Andrew Jackson

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

I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out. — Carla Bley

I woke up this mornin' Feelin' round for my shoes Know 'bout I got these, Old walkin' blues. — Robert Johnson

I don't need much coaxing. — Carla Bley

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. — Carla Bley

I don't think you can ever regain your ignorance. — Carla Bley

You think you know how you'll react to anything and then a boy shows up and kisses you, and some of that just vanishes. — Amy Spalding

Some subjects come up suddenly in our speech and cannot be silenced. — Mason Cooley

I believe that, in any novel of mine, the principal objective is the construction of the whole. — John Irving

I write very slowly. — Carla Bley

I think all record companies should be run by a musician. Just as you wouldn't trust your health to an electrician. — Paul Bley

We all have a stake in the battle against Ebola, — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke. — Carla Bley

Ride, authors. Write a ride. Figure out what yours is, and then pimp the ever-living shit out of it. — Heidi Cullinan

If she stays she stays if she goes jst let her go,making her pregnant won't stop her from leaving — Cornelius Mashilane

Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss. — K.d. Lang

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'. — Carla Bley

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

A nation who sits like cows on the fields while the country's trees are being cut down ruthlessly deserves the emptiest deserts thousands of times! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Deep darkness enhances the brightness and beauty of a little lamp. — Debasish Mridha

...music is the key to life — D.M.X.