Charlie Haden Music Quotations

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.

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.

I always approach music by thinking about the person I'm playing with and listening to the way they play and trying to enhance whatever is going on.

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.

Creative Arts raise a person to another level of consciousness as if you could imagine life before words.