#he

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

#creative #heard #kind #like #most

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. ↗

— Charlie Haden

#before #blues #called #cotton #done

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

— Charlie Haden

#some #synthesizer #tracks

But I tell you--and mark my words--you will come some day to a craggy pass in the channel, where the whole of life's stream will be broken up into whirl and tumult, foam and noise: either you will be dashed to atoms on crag points, or lifted up and borne on by some master-wave into a calmer current... ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#rochester #life

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

#art #art forms #beauty #bring #difference

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

#everybody #everything #fact #first #improvise

Initial reports are encouraging. In the end of the day, it's going to be deeds, not words, that matter. ↗

— Stephen Hadley

#deeds #encouraging #end #end of the day #going

The reason my voice is sounding more passionate is because I'm singing directly from the heart. ↗

— Sammy Hagar

#directly #heart #i #more #passionate

And then, of course, there's a couple that claim to be, but I haven't done any DNA tests or anything. ↗

— Merle Haggard

#anything #claim #couple #course #dna

I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images. ↗

— Sammy Hagar

#against #dark #got #i #images