Charlie Haden Quotes
Hoover's Music Store in Springfield, Missouri - I would listen to records there for hours.
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I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.
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If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.
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Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.
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People think, 'Jack, you do too much.'
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I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.
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Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.
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There's no regrets for me.
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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
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I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.
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I think that for a child to be in a household... with a situation where the parents are not married, as in being one man and one woman, is not the best household for a child.
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How can we educators claim credit for understanding, let alone teaching, the 'global mind' without a single course on the impact of religion on every day life?
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I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
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Just don't pull out your phone at all on the first date.
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After 26 years, I am still practicing what I preach.
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I'm amazed at how adventurous and how dangerous the music was, and still is. I haven't heard anything like it since. I'm quite surprised, because a lot of the music on there we never heard at the time.
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To paint well, I need to be enraptured by my subjects.
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We don't break the law.
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Hoover's Music Store in Springfield, Missouri - I would listen to records there for hours.
