“I want people to feel what it was like in the '40s. That's when popula...” — Charlie Haden Quote

“I want people to feel what it was like in the '40s. That's when popular music in the United States was so beautiful. Frank Sinatra, the Pied Pipers, Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson, Tommy Dorsey, Billie Holiday. That's when popular music had deeper values, to me. This was music that was selling millions of records.”

“I've got a collection of songs that I've had, I keep adding to and they're all great American composers. I wanted to showcase American composers and I've done that on a lot of my records and played things by American composers that I really respect.”

“There's always been a separation between fashion and what I call my deeper work.”

“There's an old Fred Astaire movie where the stage becomes bigger and deeper and more complex. Moments like that really did impact on me and influence me.”

“Once you get yourselves into things that are working on a deeper level, you just have to keep going. When you reach that deeper level, you can't go back.”