Before music there was silence and the duet format allows you to build from the silence in a very special way. — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
Hoover's Music Store in Springfield, Missouri - I would listen to records there for hours. — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
I'm always searching. It's the reason I'm here. It's not really about music: it's about searching for meaning. — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
I have music inside me and I'm very lucky to be able to play music and that's the way that I try… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
There's enough dismemberment going on in the world without writing music about it. — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
Creative Arts raise a person to another level of consciousness as if you could imagine life before words. — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
My dad was a great guy; my mother was wonderful. I was very lucky to be around music from the time I… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
In L.A., I played with Joe Pass and Gabor Szabo. Mick Goodrick plays guitar in the Liberation Music Orchestra, and he's a… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that's never been before, the art form… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
I just try to play music from my heart and bring as much beauty as I can to as many people as… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
I want to take people away from the ugliness and sadness around us every day and bring beautiful, deep music to as… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves as jazz musicians, but thinking… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something thats never been before, the art form… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
If you strive to become a good human being with the qualities of generosity, humility and having reverence for life...just maybe you'll… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
I've got a collection of songs that I've had, I keep adding to and they're all great American composers. I wanted to… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
I listened to classical music. I listened to jazz. I listened to everything. And I started becoming interested in the sounds of… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
I learned at a very young age that music teaches you about life. When you're in the midst of improvisation, there is… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
I want people to feel what it was like in the '40s. That's when popular music in the United States was so… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
My parents were on the Grand Ole Opry. They traveled all over the country singing hillbilly music. That's what they called it… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
I never heard anything so brilliant in my life as I did that first time I heard Ornette. He played like some… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
I told my students the other day in class, which is about the spirituality and creativity as much as it is about… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
I came from being a singer going into jazz. And that's one of the things that polio did for me is it… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
I have a very clear picture of what I want to do and what I feel is important as far as my… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
I just try to play music from my heart and bring as much beauty as I can to as many people as… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
That's the thing about musicians: The priority is to create something new that's never been before. And you put your life on… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
The bass, no matter what kind of music you're playing, it just enhances the sound and makes everything sound more beautiful and… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
The whole underlying theme for the new music... is to communicate honest, human values, and in doing that to try to improve… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
In the midst of creating, a person is raised to another level of consciousness that doesn't have that much to do with… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
My family influenced me very deeply because my dad came from a musical background, from the hillbilly music part of it, and… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
I want to expand jazz; I don't want to keep the audience limited. I want to reach people who have never come… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
I wanted to do 'Oh Shenandoah' because that's the town I was born in - as a tribute to my mom and… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
It used to be that creative music was most of the music that you heard back in the '30s and '40s, and… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
That's what I tell my students at California Institute of the Arts where I taught for 27 years. I taught them if… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
James Cotton is a real blues guy, and he played with Muddy Waters, and it surprised me that they would want me to make… — Charlie Haden Copy Share
I just try to play music from my heart and bring as much beauty as I can to as many people as I can.… — Charlie Haden Copy Share
I used to listen to a lot of Bach on the radio, and when the basses started to sing, it made everything complete -… — Charlie Haden Copy Share
There's enough dismemberment going on in the world without writing music about it. — Charlie Haden Copy Share
My dad was a great guy; my mother was wonderful. I was very lucky to be around music from the time I woke up… — Charlie Haden Copy Share
In L.A., I played with Joe Pass and Gabor Szabo. Mick Goodrick plays guitar in the Liberation Music Orchestra, and he's a real special… — Charlie Haden Copy Share
I'm always searching. It's the reason I'm here. It's not really about music: it's about searching for meaning. — Charlie Haden Copy Share
I think it's very important to live in the present. One of the great things that improvising teaches you is the magic of the… — Charlie Haden Copy Share
I want to expand jazz; I don't want to keep the audience limited. I want to reach people who have never come to a… — Charlie Haden Copy Share
I learned at a very young age that music teaches you about life. When you're in the midst of improvisation, there is no yesterday… — Charlie Haden Copy Share
I think it’s very important to live in the present. One of the great things that improvising teaches you is the magic of the… — Charlie Haden Copy Share
That's what I tell my students at California Institute of the Arts where I taught for 27 years. I taught them if you strive… — Charlie Haden Copy Share
I always felt that I was born in the wrong era. I wanted to be friends with John Garfield, for instance. He was one… — Charlie Haden Copy Share
The whole underlying theme for the new music... is to communicate honest, human values, and in doing that to try to improve the quality… — Charlie Haden Copy Share
