American - Musician | August 6, 1937 -
Mostly I play with records. I play with my friend Bill Evans.
Charlie Haden
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I never heard anything so brilliant in my life as I did that first time I heard Ornette. He played like some revolutionary angel. Soon, we were rehearsing in his place, music scattered everywhere, and he was telling me to play outside the chord changes, which was exactly what I had been wanting to do. Now I had permission.
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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.
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I had to learn right away how to improvise behind Ornette, which not only meant following him from one key to another and recognizing the different keys, but modulating in a way that the keys flowed in and out of each other, and the new harmonies sounded right.
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I used to listen to a lot of Bach on the radio, and when the basses started to sing, it made everything complete - it made it all make sense.
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I wanted to do 'Oh Shenandoah' because that's the town I was born in - as a tribute to my mom and dad for giving me all this music. I don't really sing this as a singer, because I'm not a singer. But I wanted to do it for them.
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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.
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I didn't play a lot of bass as a kid, but I sang it.
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Hoover's Music Store in Springfield, Missouri - I would listen to records there for hours.
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That's the thing about musicians: The priority is to create something new that's never been before. And you put your life on the line every time that you play.
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There's enough dismemberment going on in the world without writing music about it.
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I want to take people away from the ugliness and sadness around us every day and bring beautiful, deep music to as many people as I can.
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