“Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wante...” — Carla Bley Quote

“Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.”

“I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.”

“Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.”

“My husband's a very good baker. He does all the baking at home - if there is any - because I'm a coeliac. I tend to avoid stuff like that, I don't even buy it.”

“I remember Tom Baker once said to me many years ago: never go back, particularly with TV shows. This is because the track record for characters returning to series they've left is not very good.”

“Back in Kuwait, I had started listening to a lot of English language music: western music, I would say - Kate Bush and Radiohead - and I loved Chet Baker, Etna James, a lot of singers and a lot of bands.”