Song Quotes by Charlie Haden

I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them...

— Charlie Haden

Some tracks are with quartet and some tracks are with synthesizer.

— Charlie Haden

I can write a song about my hero Che Guevara and call it 'Song for Che.'

— Charlie Haden

There's enough dismemberment going on in the world without writing music about it.

— Charlie Haden

I didn't play a lot of bass as a kid, but I sang it.

— Charlie Haden

I just sit down at the piano and rattle it off.

— Charlie Haden

The whole underlying theme for the new music... is to communicate honest, human values, and in doing that to try to improve…

— Charlie Haden

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

My dad was a great guy; my mother was wonderful. I was very lucky to be around music from the time I…

— Charlie Haden

I want to take people away from the ugliness and sadness around us every day and bring beautiful, deep music to as…

— Charlie Haden

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

As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something thats never been before, the art form…

— Charlie Haden

Before music there was silence and the duet format allows you to build from the silence in a very special way.

— Charlie Haden

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

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

I have a very clear picture of what I want to do and what I feel is important as far as my…

— Charlie Haden

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

I just try to play music from my heart and bring as much beauty as I can to as many people as…

— Charlie Haden

I always told the people at Cal Arts that if they wanted me to do Jazz studies, first of all, there couldn't…

— Charlie Haden

James Cotton is a real blues guy, and he played with Muddy Waters, and it surprised me that they would want me…

— Charlie Haden

I listened to classical music. I listened to jazz. I listened to everything. And I started becoming interested in the sounds of…

— Charlie Haden

I think life is really hard sometimes. It's not easy to wake up every day and go through what you go through.…

— Charlie Haden