Charlie Haden

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

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

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.

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

One of the things about creativity is you can be in denial about these things. When I found out I had cancer, there were four hours in which I was pounding my head on the marble kitchen top saying, “I can’t believe it, I can’t believe it.” But then I felt as if this little army in uniform was flooding me. They had come to help me fight it. I felt really strong about it after that. It was one of the strongest periods of my life.

Can anybody be given creativity? No. Only equipment to develop it if it’s in them in the first place.

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

I cry out for order and find it only in art.

The essence of all Art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

The arts are at the center of a nation’s purpose and a test of civilization.

The conventional notions of art have changed, and a lot of things done today are considered works of art that would have been rejected in the past.

I hope the Guggenheim plan will be revived.

He knows all about art, but he doesn’t know what he likes.

There is no art without intention.

Bad artists imitate, great artists steal.

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

Truth exists in art.

The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.