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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

Topics: About Art Art Forms Beauty Bring Difference Forms Here Make Make A Difference Planet World

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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.

~Charlie Haden

Topics: Bass Beautiful Bottom Drops Enhances Everything Full Just Kind Makes Matter More Music Out Playing Sound Stops You

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I think it's very important to live in the present. One of the great things that improvising teaches you is the magic of the moment that you're in because, when you improvise, you're in right now. You're not in yesterday or tomorrow - you're right in the moment.

~Charlie Haden

Topics: Because Great Great Things Important Improvise Improvising Live Magic Moment Now Present Right Teaches Things Think Tomorrow Very Yesterday You I Think

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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.

~Charlie Haden

Topics: About Away Become Beings Come Discovering Good Good Human Great Great Person Human Human Beings Inside Jazz Jazz Musicians Maybe Music Musician Musicians Person Striving Them Themselves Thinking Want

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When you listen to a symphony orchestra, and the basses don't - there's no bass part, there's not that much depth. That's why I'm attracted to the instrument, the bass. It brings depth. It's like playing in a rainforest.

~Charlie Haden

Topics: Attracted Bass Brings Depth Instrument Like Listen Much Orchestra Part Playing Symphony Why You

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I want people to feel what it was like in the '40s. That's when popular music in the United States was so beautiful. Frank Sinatra, the Pied Pipers, Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson, Tommy Dorsey, Billie Holiday. That's when popular music had deeper values, to me. This was music that was selling millions of records.

~Charlie Haden

Topics: Beautiful Billie Holiday Deeper Duke Feel Frank Frank Sinatra Had Holiday Like Me Millions Music People Popular Popular Music Records Selling Sinatra States Tommy United United States Values Want

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In L.A., I played with Joe Pass and Gabor Szabo. Mick Goodrick plays guitar in the Liberation Music Orchestra, and he's a real special player. Then I did a duet concert with Jim Hall at the 1990 Montreal Festival.

~Charlie Haden

Topics: Concert Did Duet Festival Guitar Hall He Jim Joe Liberation Montreal Music Orchestra Pass Played Player Plays Real Special Then

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When I was four, we moved to a farm outside Springfield, Missouri. We had a radio show from that farmhouse. My dad always wanted a farm. We used to go out and milk the cows every morning and then do a radio show with a remote control from our living room. We'd start by singing 'Keep On The Sunny Side.'

~Charlie Haden

Topics: Always Control Cows Dad Every Farm Four Go Had Keep Living Living Room Milk Missouri Morning Moved Our Out Outside Radio Remote Room Show Side Singing Start Sunny Then Used Wanted

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I'm always searching. It's the reason I'm here. It's not really about music: it's about searching for meaning.

~Charlie Haden

Topics: About Always Here Meaning Music Really Reason Searching

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My family influenced me very deeply because my dad came from a musical background, from the hillbilly music part of it, and all that music came over from Scotland and Ireland and England in to the Appalachian Mountains and Ozark Mountains, where I was raised.

~Charlie Haden

Topics: Appalachian Background Because Came Dad Deeply England Family Hillbilly Influenced Ireland Me Mountains Music Musical Over Part Raised Scotland Very Where I Was Raised

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: August 6th, 1937

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