There’s like a special
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
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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. Charlie Haden
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
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
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
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
I just sit down at the piano and rattle it off. Charlie Haden
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
I just see myself as a human being that’s concerned about life. Charlie Haden
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
In the midst of creating, a person is raised to another level of consciousness. Charlie Haden