Charlie Haden Quotes

• As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that’s never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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 aren’t exposed to creative music.

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• I just see myself as a human being that’s concerned about life.

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• 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.

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

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• 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 good human beings, striving to be a great person and maybe they’ll become a great musician.

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• Some tracks are with quartet and some tracks are with synthesizer.

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• 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.

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• 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 record with them, that he called me to do this record. I’d never done anything like that before. But I love blues, so I was very happy.

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• 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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• 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.

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• We’re here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That’s what art forms are about.

  Charlie Haden

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• 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.

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Charlie Haden (15)

Birth:	6th August, 1937
Death:	11th July, 2014
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Bassist, Composer, Saxophonist

About

Charlie Haden was an American jazz double bass player, known for his long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman, pianist Keith Jarrett, and his Liberation Music Orchestra, a group he co-led with pianist Carla Bley.

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