Carla Bley

I write very slowly.

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.

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.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.

Political differences will always generate a healthy debate, but over time the dialogue has become more hateful and at times violent.

Jokes are very curious things psychologically.