List of Charlie Haden Quotes

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 Workshop In Boston At The New England Conservatory, Which Was Really Nice.

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 Play The Tunes And Improvise.

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 3 Percent. So, Its Kind Of A Struggle Getttin' It Out There.

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 And I've Done That On A Lot Of My Records And Played Things By American Composers That I Really Respect.

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 Band Within 500 Miles And That I Could Do What I Wanted To Do. And They Said I Could.

I Just Sit Down At The Piano And Rattle It Off.

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 Life.

I Just See Myself As A Human Being That's Concerned About Life.

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 Like An Angel.

In The Midst Of Creating, A Person Is Raised To Another Level Of Consciousness.

The Artist Is Very Lucky, Because In An Art Form That's Spontaneous Like Jazz, That's When You Really See Your True Self. And That's Why, When I Put Down My Instrument, That's When The Challenge Starts, Because To Learn How To Be That Kind Of Human Being At That Level That You Are When You're Playing - That's The Key, That's The Hard Part.

I Always Felt That I Was Born In The Wrong Era. I Wanted To Be Friends With John Garfield, For Instance. He Was One Of The Only Actors That Refused To Testify In Front Of The House Un-american Activities Committee Back When The Hollywood Ten Blacklist Was Happening In The Mccarthy Period. I Wish I Could've Been Friends With Charlie Parker And Played With Him. That's My Period. I Feel Real Close To The '40s - And Actually I Was Born In '37, So I Was A Kid Singing On The Radio In The '40s. But I Always Dreamed Of Going To Big Cities.