Charlie Haden quote: "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."

I always told the people at Cal Arts that if they wanted me to do Jazz studies, first of all, there ...
CHARLIE HADEN

My family influenced me very deeply because my dad came from a musical background, from the hillbill...
CHARLIE HADEN

We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what ar...
CHARLIE HADEN

The bass, no matter what kind of music you're playing, it just enhances the sound and makes ever...
CHARLIE HADEN

I wish I could've been friends with Charlie Parker and played with him. That's my period. I ...
CHARLIE HADEN

I listened to classical music. I listened to jazz. I listened to everything. And I started becoming ...
CHARLIE HADEN

I always felt that I was born in the wrong era. I wanted to be friends with John Garfield, for insta...
CHARLIE HADEN

I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves a...
CHARLIE HADEN

I think it's very important to live in the present. One of the great things that improvising tea...
CHARLIE HADEN

One of the things my mom used to do - I don't know why she chose me, but she chose me out of her...
CHARLIE HADEN

My parents were on the Grand Ole Opry. They traveled all over the country singing hillbilly music. T...
CHARLIE HADEN

I want people to feel what it was like in the '40s. That's when popular music in the United ...
CHARLIE HADEN

James Cotton is a real blues guy, and he played with Muddy Waters, and it surprised me that they wou...
CHARLIE HADEN

I have music inside me and I'm very lucky to be able to play music and that's the way that I...
CHARLIE HADEN

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

Some tracks are with quartet and some tracks are with synthesizer.
CHARLIE HADEN

When you listen to a symphony orchestra, and the basses don't - there's no bass part, there&...
CHARLIE HADEN

Bluegrass is in my blood and in my ears.
CHARLIE HADEN

People ask me how could I go from country to jazz. It's been a natural convergence for me.
CHARLIE HADEN

That's the thing about musicians: The priority is to create something new that's never been ...
CHARLIE HADEN

I used to listen to a lot of Bach on the radio, and when the basses started to sing, it made everyth...
CHARLIE HADEN

I came from being a singer going into jazz. And that's one of the things that polio did for me i...
CHARLIE HADEN

I can write a song about my hero Che Guevara and call it 'Song for Che.'
CHARLIE HADEN

I just see myself as a human being that's concerned about life.
CHARLIE HADEN

I've got a collection of songs that I've had, I keep adding to and they're all great Ame...
CHARLIE HADEN

I don't sing now, because I had polio when I was 15, bulbar polio. This was when the epidemic wa...
CHARLIE HADEN

There's like a special group of people that come from different parts of the planet to study wit...
CHARLIE HADEN

I wanted to do 'Oh Shenandoah' because that's the town I was born in - as a tribute to m...
CHARLIE HADEN

I want to take people away from the ugliness and sadness around us every day and bring beautiful, de...
CHARLIE HADEN

As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that's...
CHARLIE HADEN

You can't be at your full creative power if you are sedated.
CHARLIE HADEN

Old film-noir movies. There's something comforting about watching black-and-white movies, and he...
PETRA HADEN

I like things that start depressing and dark and end up romantic, and that's what I really loved...
PETRA HADEN

Restoration is artificial, but (we do it) using the best scientific knowledge we have to reintroduce...
ALLEN HADEN

I think the public should be aware and be pretty proud of the restoration effort that is going on in...
ALLEN HADEN

I threw interception after interception and I remember the look of disgust on coach John McKay's fac...
PAT HADEN

So we kind of laid an egg in our very first game.
PAT HADEN

It's one of those scenarios where no, I never imagined that I'd be directed in a love scene ...
THOMAS HADEN CHURCH

Children from like 8 and even up to the college age - Spider-Man appeals to a fairly broad demograph...
THOMAS HADEN CHURCH

But I certainly know a lot of people that existed at that level and are always kind of pining for mo...
THOMAS HADEN CHURCH

But I think once the word gets out that the movie is funny - funny is transcendent - it will travers...
THOMAS HADEN CHURCH

I certainly was an actor and then I drifted more towards writing and directing.
THOMAS HADEN CHURCH

I would say 95% of the time, because you just can't remember your lines if you're drinking a...
THOMAS HADEN CHURCH

Last summer when we were preparing for the movie, I actually kind of wanted to stay fairly uninforme...
THOMAS HADEN CHURCH

But all actors go through the process, it's hit and miss, you have achievement and failure.
THOMAS HADEN CHURCH

And there have certainly been movies I wanted to be in and milestones I wanted to surpass that did n...
THOMAS HADEN CHURCH

Of course I can keep secrets. It's the people I tell them to that can't keep them.
ANTHONY HADEN-GUEST

I believe in singularity in relationships because you've got to have trust on both sides.
THOMAS HADEN CHURCH

He was using me. When he cast me in Sideways I was nothing but a vessel.
THOMAS HADEN CHURCH

That's one of the best duals I've been associated with. Maybe this one will be just as good or bette...
JEFF VON HADEN

(Vollmer) had a super night. He wrestled smart, stayed in good position, worked hard, took his point...
JEFF VON HADEN

We've accomplished one goal, and now we move on to try and accomplish another one next week.
JEFF VON HADEN

I'm in this really cool place in my career, where the stage I'm on that night, whether it...
CHARLIE WORSHAM

I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ...
CHARLIE SHEEN

I love my girlfriend to bits. I'd never do anything to hurt her.
CHARLIE SIMPSON

I have a different constitution. I have a different brain; I have a different heart; I got tiger blo...
CHARLIE SHEEN

I would be a giraffe because I just want to experience what a sore throat and being a giraffe feels ...
CHARLIE PUTH

I had three toy buckets, and I would put hot water in them because we weren't allowed to sit in ...
CHARLIE PUTH

If the broadcasters were to win on their claims, they'd outlaw the DVR.
CHARLIE ERGEN

Some people are averse to change, but the advertising model is going to change with or without the H...
CHARLIE ERGEN

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
CHARLIE PARKER

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't...
CHARLIE PARKER

When I look at President Obama, I see a leader with a cool head, a caring heart and an open mind, a ...
CHARLIE CRIST

I love my bro, but not always being with him is good for us.
CHARLIE CARVER

I'm sorry, man, but I've got magic. I've got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time -...
CHARLIE SHEEN

My dad was an actor and a writer; my mum was a drama teacher. My grandma was an actress. My aunt is ...
CHARLIE ROWE

There are only two kinds of employees that I've run across in 30 years. There are ones that get ...
CHARLIE ERGEN

I saw 28 Days. I don't remember rehab being like a day camp or being that funny. Rehab is a dump...
CHARLIE SHEEN

I'm incredibly proud of everything that we've achieved in Busted. We've enjoyed some of ...
CHARLIE SIMPSON

There are few colonial nations anymore. Instead, we are colonized by financial institutions beyond o...
CHARLIE PIERCE

I was bit by a dog when I was two years old, and it almost mauled my face. It almost killed and/or b...
CHARLIE PUTH

Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of...
CHARLIE PARKER

I timed my previous wife's pregnancy to the moment to have my son born on Bob Dylan's 50th b...
CHARLIE TROTTER

I'm really grateful for the opportunity I had on 'Boardwalk Empire,' just because it was...
CHARLIE COX

I think a guy who's had just the right amount of booze can sing the blues a hell of a lot better...
CHARLIE RICH

Boom, crush. Night, losers. Winning, duh.
CHARLIE SHEEN

I started piano when I was four. My mom taught me. And then I went to Manhattan School of Music duri...
CHARLIE PUTH

My first date ever, I was kind of nervous, so I was like, 'I'm going to bring Brady to this ...
CHARLIE PUTH

I have this side of me that is a very European flamboyant; I won't say queenie, but it's bor...
CHARLIE BEWLEY

The problem is not that the churches are filled with empty pews, but that the pews are filled with e...
CHARLIE SHEDD

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
CHARLIE MCCARTHY

I play beside one of the unsung heroes in David Vaughan. It's a privilege to play with him: he i...
CHARLIE ADAM

Everyone's gone through a breakup, and I've dated girls in the past where... I've never ...
CHARLIE PUTH

But I just think we've got such a continuity with what we're doing that most people come in ...
CHARLIE HUNTER

The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come ou...
CHARLIE PARKER

Blackjack is very scientific. There's always a right answer and a wrong answer. Do you take a ca...
CHARLIE ERGEN

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, which is a pity because this week the National Association of ...
CHARLIE BROOKER

It's spider season. Every year, right about now, thousands of the godless eight-legged bastards emer...
CHARLIE BROOKER

You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

I’m not Thomas Jefferson. He was a pussy!
CHARLIE SHEEN

You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and a...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.
CHARLIE FINLEY

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
CHARLIE MCCARTHY

In the end, everything is a gag.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

I remain just one thing, and one thing only -- and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher pla...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from m...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

You have to believe in yourself, that's the secret. Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roa...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
CHARLIE BROWN

I remain just one thing, and one thing only -- and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher pl...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The...
CHARLIE BROWN

Death, the one appointment we all must keep, and for which no time is set
CHARLIE CHAN

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

Machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines, you are not cattle, you ar...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

I remain just one thing, and one thing only -- and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher p...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conque...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

There is one person in charge of every office in America and that person is Charles Darwin.
CHARLIE GRANDY

I'm not a concept. Too many guys think I'm a concept or I complete them or I'm going to 'make them a...
CHARLIE KAUFMAN

One of my goals is to find an unsigned YouTube artist and feature them on my album. That's what ...
CHARLIE PUTH

I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn't abo...
CHARLIE WATTS

When I'm at home or in the studio, I have a 1963 Martin. It's a D-28, and I love that guitar...
CHARLIE WORSHAM

All four elements were happening in equal measure - the cuisine, the wine, the service, and the over...
CHARLIE TROTTER

Liverpool is such a big club, and I was fortunate to be one of a select few to have played for them....
CHARLIE ADAM

I'm 0 for 3 with marriage - the scoreboard doesn't lie, never has. So what we all have is a ...
CHARLIE SHEEN

I'm different. I have a different constitution, I have a different brain, I have a different hea...
CHARLIE SHEEN

Every day I am part of my local town community, part of Rio Mesa High School Alumni, part of the rac...
CHARLIE KIMBALL

We create our own government. We are responsible for its beauty and for its ugliness. We are respons...
CHARLIE PIERCE

The alarm rings 4:45, again at 5, but I wake up 4:30 naturally. Shower, shave, orange juice, perk my...
CHARLIE ROSE

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it do...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

'We, The People' is more than a statement of purpose. It is an acknowledgement of an obligat...
CHARLIE PIERCE

Sometimes I think I should have chosen a line of work where it was just me alone in the room, with t...
CHARLIE TROTTER

You know the old adage that the customer's always right? Well, I kind of think that the opposite...
CHARLIE TROTTER

'The Princess Bride' was a movie that I watched all the time.
CHARLIE ROWE

Why should poetry have to make sense?
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

Sure, I did a lot of things in excess. But if you look at the core, the foundation of what I pursued...
CHARLIE SHEEN

Gradually, football has seen its appeal slip at the most basic levels. Pediatricians are advising pa...
CHARLIE PIERCE

Ultimately, broadcasters and advertisers have to change the way they do business or they run the ris...
CHARLIE ERGEN

I think my passion is misinterpreted as anger sometimes. And I don't think people are ready for ...
CHARLIE SHEEN

I'm always inspired by people who have really cool Twitter profiles.
CHARLIE PUTH

We didn't have a garage to rehearse in. We had to aggravate the folks in the house. But I got a ...
CHARLIE DANIELS

When I get high anxiety, I vomit. My mom was so stressed out. Then I found out I was staying in John...
CHARLIE PUTH

We in the United States should be all the more thankful for the freedom and religious tolerance we e...
CHARLIE DENT

I have a routine for a day I'm in the office and not really physically active. Or a day when I&#...
CHARLIE KIMBALL

There are days when I still wake up angry, and no one handles it perfectly all the time, but honestl...
CHARLIE KIMBALL

I have a lot of great racing memories growing up in Europe as a young boy - playing with car parts o...
CHARLIE KIMBALL

When I turned 16, I got my driver's license like the rest of my classmates, but I also got an ex...
CHARLIE KIMBALL

I have to consider everything I eat; I consider every activity I do.
CHARLIE KIMBALL

I wear a continuous glucose monitor when I'm racing.
CHARLIE KIMBALL

I've got one of the best health care teams out there as far as diabetes management.
CHARLIE KIMBALL

While I'm driving, I've got speed, gear, lap time, water temperature, blood sugar, RPM, oil ...
CHARLIE KIMBALL

Beside the brand-ambassador elements of the modern racing driver, the evolution of the athlete has m...
CHARLIE KIMBALL

Whenever I am not traveling during the winter, I am pushing hard in the gym. Even when I am travelin...
CHARLIE KIMBALL

People ask how hard it can be sitting down for work during a 500-mile race? Well, without power stee...
CHARLIE KIMBALL

Overcoming the obstacle of my diabetes diagnosis was something that forced me tackle the challenge h...
CHARLIE KIMBALL

The pros and cons of using the apron are likely above my pay grade, but with or without it, the Indy...
CHARLIE KIMBALL

My team fills two separate drink bottles for me in the car. One is water, and the other has orange j...
CHARLIE KIMBALL

There's a wire injected under my skin a few days before an event and connected to that is a wire...
CHARLIE KIMBALL

As the son of a racing car designer and mechanical engineer, I was exposed to motorsports from day o...
CHARLIE KIMBALL

Racing is what I live for, and it makes my world go around. Having said that, without the support of...
CHARLIE KIMBALL

Gone are the days when you could lie on a beach between races and still be in good enough shape to c...
CHARLIE KIMBALL

I have a great race team, great grew members, awesome health care team, endocrinologist, nutritionis...
CHARLIE KIMBALL

You don't get a mix of ovals and road/street course racing with this level of competition and sp...
CHARLIE KIMBALL

It takes more than driving to become an IndyCar driver. Gone are the days when drivers show up Frida...
CHARLIE KIMBALL

Being diagnosed with diabetes can be a very scary thing, and it can easily make your life stand stil...
CHARLIE KIMBALL

Heights make my feet tingle; not sure if that is a phobia, but it isn't the greatest feeling.
CHARLIE ROWE

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's hap...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clut...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish id...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

The glamour of it all! New York! America!
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

We think too much and feel too little.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

A day without laughter is a day wasted.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

I try desperately to never drink bottled water.
CHARLIE HUNNAM

The most important thing is being passionate about what you're doing and always give it your all...
CHARLIE WHITE

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

I think that people have expectations of themselves and other people that are based on these fiction...
CHARLIE KAUFMAN

I have one speed, I have one gear: go!
CHARLIE SHEEN

The first person that I ever heard sing a song I wrote was Jason Derulo. I was in the studio when he...
CHARLIE PUTH

When I'm writing, I'm trying to immerse myself in the chaos of an emotional experience, rath...
CHARLIE KAUFMAN

Claire Danes is lovely and a really great actress.
CHARLIE COX

I have a personality that tends to be somewhat compulsive, and I do tend to think in a circular way....
CHARLIE KAUFMAN

I am on a drug. It's called Charlie Sheen.
CHARLIE SHEEN

Money makes people stupid. They don't have to work as hard as people who don't have money. That's wh...
CHARLIE HUSTON

Slash sat me down at his house and said, You've got to clean up your act. You know you've go...
CHARLIE SHEEN

The body cannot produce enzymes in perfect combinations to metabolize your foods as completely as th...
CHARLIE TROTTER

Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

I'm dealing with fools and trolls and soft targets. It's just strafing runs in my underwear ...
CHARLIE SHEEN

I've spent, I think, close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin can...
CHARLIE SHEEN

I'm here tonight, not as a Republican, not as a Democrat, but as an optimistic American who unde...
CHARLIE CRIST

I was carrying my friend in his casket to put him in the hearse, and I was thinking, 'I need to ...
CHARLIE PUTH

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 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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