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