Carla Bley Quotes
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 spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living.
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My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
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My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.
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I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.
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We are not a TV station that only concentrate on those who are always under light. We are not a TV station for celebrities and for grand politicians and superstars. We are a TV station for the ordinary person. The normal people, ordinary people in the Arab world sees Al Jazeera as their voice.
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Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.
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Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.
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I am happy to donate funds to various organizations that help people in need.
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The most frequently asked question I hear first-time entrepreneurs ask is, 'How do I know when to launch my product?' The answer, more often than not, should be: 'Now!'
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I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.
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I've always been working just to be a world champion and it's a dream come true.
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If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
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There are three types of pitchers you have to deal with. Some, you just have to tell what town they're in, remind them where they are. Some, you remind them about mechanics, and some, you have to bust their tail. You have to make them your friend and have them trust you.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.
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Actors do like watching girls parade down the runway for some reason.
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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.
