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Carla Bley Quotes

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.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: May 11, 1938

Topics

Music Best World Nothing Rock Times

I can't cut out a piece of cloth and make a lovely dress, but I can mend tears in shirts and sew on buttons.

Dress Tears I Can Lovely Out Cut

When I walked through the gate, Universal quit building actors. All of a sudden, I was doing leading roles. I knew I was a tyro, but they told me to shut up and act.

Me Building Doing Quit Gate Shut Up

And strictly forbid that any quarrelling be at your meals.

Robert Grosseteste

Meals Your Any Forbid Strictly

Mike Webster lost all his money or, maybe, gave it away. He forgot. A lot of lawsuits. Mike Webster forgot how to eat, too. Soon, Mike Webster was homeless, living in a truck, one of its windows replaced with a garbage bag and tape.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

Money Homeless Truck Bag Living Eat

I don't read much nonfiction because the nonfiction I do read always seems to be so badly written. What I enjoy about fiction - the great gift of fiction - is that it gives language an opportunity to happen.

Opportunity Great Gift Language

There's now, for the first time, a huge gulf between the artefacts of our everyday life and what even a single expert, let alone the average child, can comprehend. The gadgets that now pervade young people's lives, iPhones and suchlike, are baffling 'black boxes' - pure magic to most people.

Life Alone Time Child People Black

Socialists find me too far left; Trotskyites not far enough; ecologists say I am too happy eating foie gras, defending nuclear energy and GM plants; feminists find I am not enough of a woman; anarchists a petit-bourgeois who has sold out because I believe in universal suffrage.

Woman I Am Happy Me Plants Energy

There is no sense in getting excited by market cap because it is a tool.

Cap No Sense Tool Excited Market

We wanted to interview people on the show, do variety, get the artists, the guests involved with us in our group. They wanted to keep the four guys together. We wanted to change the format.

Change Together People Group Guests

I do belong on stage.

History provides an antidote to cynicism about the past.

History Past Cynicism Antidote About

I was the first one in the family, on either side, to go to college - much less graduate school.

Family School College Go First Side

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