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 try to do it.

As long as musicians have passion for spontaneity and creating something that’s never been before, Jazz will flourish.

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

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

There’s no collection that has a better representation of post-war American art than David Geffen’s.

Life is tough and if you’re creative, it’s tougher.

To this day I’m really not sure if I was playing Ziggy [Stardust] or if Ziggy was exaggerated aspects of my own personality. A fair amount of psychological baggage was undoubtedly coming out through the character. Because I felt awkward and nervous and inadequate with myself, it felt easier to be somebody else.

Good art will speak to you if you give it a chance.

Make the best of every moment. We’re not evolving. We’re not going anywhere.

I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

I hope the Guggenheim plan will be revived.

Nothing will stop you from being creative so effectively as the fear of making a mistake.

A museum has to renew its collection to be alive, but that does not mean we give on important old works.

We’ll buy some drugs and watch a band and jump in a river holding hands.

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

I’m just an individual who doesn’t feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I’m working for me.

Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else’s personality, that is not art.