"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."

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Source : "Charlie Haden Remembers Tomorrow". Interview With Mike Brannon, www.allaboutjazz.com. March 7, 2003.

Charlie Haden

#Struggle Quotes #Creativity Quotes #Creative Quotes

“Bert Blyleven certainly was a starting pitcher that had tremendous success in the big leagues. Jimmy Rice, this guy if you had to face him, I tell you what he'd get your attention cause he was a great... great player. I think those guys deserve some recognition, but it didn't happen for them. For whatever reason, I really can't answer that.”

Source : Interview with Chris Yandek, www.cyinterview.com. May 4, 2007.
“Reality is where we are from moment to moment.”
“Music was my oxygen. It's what saved me from being a really lonely and scared teenager.”
“No fool can be silent at a feast.”
“I've told you a million times, I don't exaggerate.”

Source : "Stelling on Saturday: nobody does it better" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. March 8, 2006.
“Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.”

Source : Cambridge Review 8 Dec. 1910, "Sonnet"
“. . . Luddites were those frenzied traditionalists of the early 19th century who toured [England] wrecking new weaving machines on the theory that if they were destroyed . . . old jobs and old ways of life could be preserved . . . At certain times in his life each man is tempted to become a Luddite, for there is always something he would like to go back to. But to be against all change-against change in the abstract-is folly.”
“I used to think business was 50 percent having the right people. Now I think it's 80 percent.”

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