All Charlie Haden Quotes
- I think life is really hard sometimes. It's not easy to wake up every day and go through what you go through. But the beautiful… All
- As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something thats never been before, the art form of jazz will… Art
- The whole underlying theme for the new music... is to communicate honest, human values, and in doing that to try to improve the quality of… Communicate
- I just try to play music from my heart and bring as much beauty as I can to as many people as I can. Just… Alternatives
- You have to see your unimportance before you can see your importance and your significance to the world. Importance
- 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 moment… Any
- 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 and… Age
- It used to be that creative music was most of the music that you heard back in the '30s and '40s, and now it's like… Creative
- Chris (Anderson) is risking his life with every chord, that's how much it means to him. He has such a reverence for beauty, he plays… Anderson
- If you strive to become a good human being with the qualities of generosity, humility and having reverence for life...just maybe you'll become a great… Generosity
- I always told the people at Cal Arts that if they wanted me to do Jazz studies, first of all, there couldn't be a big… All
- I just see myself as a human being that's concerned about life. Concerned
- I just sit down at the piano and rattle it off. Down
- 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 showcase American composers… Adding
- There's like a special group of people that come from different parts of the planet to study with me. It's nice. I just gave a… Boston
- I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them... Come Away
- The bass, no matter what kind of music you're playing, it just enhances the sound and makes everything sound more beautiful and full. When the… Bass
- When we first started playing we did a lot of rehearsing. We used to write out everything. In fact, that's the way everybody rehearses: we… Everybody
- In the midst of creating, a person is raised to another level of consciousness that doesn't have that much to do with everyday thinking. It's… Another Level
- Creative Arts raise a person to another level of consciousness as if you could imagine life before words. Another Level
- Some tracks are with quartet and some tracks are with synthesizer. Quartet
- Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person. Better
- I have music inside me and I'm very lucky to be able to play music and that's the way that I try to do it. Able
- I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves as jazz musicians, but thinking about themselves as… Beings
- James Cotton is a real blues guy, and he played with Muddy Waters, and it surprised me that they would want me to make a… Anything Like