Charlie Haden famous quotes

03-25-2025

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 flourish.
-- Charlie Haden

#Art #Passion #Creating
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 stops, the bottom kind of drops out of everything.
-- Charlie Haden

#Beautiful #Sound #Bass
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 moments that you share with people that you love, or even experience alone, are worth all of the pain and sorrow. Those moments should be cherished, and I think that's what music is all about-to remind people of the beautiful moments that are in everybody's life
-- Charlie Haden

#Beautiful #Pain #Thinking
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 no tomorrow â€” there is just the moment that you are in. In that beautiful moment, you experience your true insignificance to the rest of the universe. It is then, and only then, that you can experience your true significance.
-- Charlie Haden

#Beautiful #Yesterday #Age
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 musician.
-- Charlie Haden

#Humility #Generosity #Quality
Creative Arts raise a person to another level of consciousness as if you could imagine life before words.
-- Charlie Haden

#Music #Art #Creative
I think itâ€™s very important to live in the present. One of the great things that improvising teaches you is the magic of the moment that youâ€™re in â€¦ because when you improvise youâ€™re in right now. Youâ€™re not in yesterday or tomorrowâ€”youâ€™re right in the moment. Being in that moment really gives you a perspective of life that you never get at any other time as far as learning about your egoâ€¦ You have to see your unimportance before you can see your importance and your significance to the world.
-- Charlie Haden

#Thinking #Yesterday #Giving
Before music there was silence and the duet format allows you to build from the silence in a very special way.
-- Charlie Haden

#Silence #Special #Duets
You have to see your unimportance before you can see your importance and your significance to the world.
-- Charlie Haden

#World #Importance #Significance
I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them...
-- Charlie Haden

#Teaching #Want #Discovering
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.
-- Charlie Haden

#Nice #Boston #People
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.
-- Charlie Haden

#Song #Done #Records
I just sit down at the piano and rattle it off.
-- Charlie Haden

#Inspiration #Piano
I just see myself as a human being that's concerned about life.
-- Charlie Haden

#Concerned #Humans
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.
-- Charlie Haden

#Art #People #Band
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 as if you could imagine life before there were words.
-- Charlie Haden

#Music #Thinking #Creating
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.
-- Charlie Haden

#Trying #Quality #Honest
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.
-- Charlie Haden

#Struggle #Creativity #Creative
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.
-- Charlie Haden

#Writing #Play #Tunes
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 give them other alternatives, especially people who arent exposed to creative music.
-- Charlie Haden

#Heart #Play #People
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.
-- Charlie Haden

#Mean #Angel #Play

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