I grew up around guitar players.Charlie HadenTheWorldMotivation.comTry New ThemeDownloadSharePin ItCopied to clipboard!“I grew up around guitar players.
“That's what I tell my students at California Institute of the Arts where I taught for 27 years. I taught them if you strive to be a good person, maybe you might become a great jazz musician.”Charlie HadenGood Person
“As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like.”Brad PaisleyGuitar
“In L.A., I played with Joe Pass and Gabor Szabo. Mick Goodrick plays guitar in the Liberation Music Orchestra, and he's a real special player. Then I did a duet concert with Jim Hall at the 1990 Montreal Festival.”Charlie HadenConcert
“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.”Charlie HadenAppalachian
“I want to expand jazz; I don't want to keep the audience limited. I want to reach people who have never come to a jazz concert before. One way to do that is by making records that have a lot of different kinds of music on them.”Charlie HadenConcert
“I'm not one of those guys who can just take a guitar into a room and come out with a song. I need all my instruments dotted around.”Steven WilsonGuitar