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

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

Charlie Haden

#Inspiration Quotes #Piano Quotes

“The gut-strung guitar, the classical guitar, that is a whole different world on its own. When you think what the guitar can do and what every individual player does with a guitar, everyone has their own identity coming through the guitar.”
“My experience creatively is different than my experience in life, for, as my father would say, the simple reason that you can't get hurt when everything goes wrong creatively.”
“Pity wraps the student of the past in an ambrosial cloud, and washes his limbs with eternal youth.”
“You can never solve a problem with the same kind of thinking that created the problem in the first place.”
“Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.”
“French women eat and serve what's in season, for maximum flavor and value, and know availability does not equal quality.”
“I hope always to be busy, even if only directing an orchestra in the pit. However, I should prefer to produce movies or be the directing head of a radio corporation.”
“A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.”

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