Charlie Haden Quotes

Music is so hard. It's a struggle to get people to care. It's hard to make an impact in today's world because people aren't buying records anymore.

Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind.

I think there is a big difference between the music business and music. And my relationship is to music, not music business. I think the business will keep changing, but music won't. Music will be there.

Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.

There's consciousness in my music, and my music comes from a conscious place. And when people say that, I certainly take it as a compliment. But my job, in terms of selling my music, is to be universal and to try to get it to everybody.

Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record.

I'm very much interested in music specifically and wanted to make a film about it, but not in an atmosphere of censorship.

Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media.

The only thing I've ever offered the public is some music. If they like the music, that's great. Turn on the radio. If they don't like it, switch it off.

What we do is wake up every morning and think about how we get more music out to people; how do we get better music? We breathe, eat, and sleep music.

There's always a market for music.

I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music. It's my fascination, my ongoing passion.

The moment artists can just do what they love to do then music will go right back to where it used to be. I mean back in the '60s and '70s and '80s, that's what it was.

I'm not a household word. The climate for original music is always a bit difficult.

My father was interested in bringing reggae music to the entire world.

I have very much enjoyed being in the music business in different roles through five different decades.

There will always be some kid who's the new Kurt Cobain writing great lyrics and singing from his soul. The problem is they're not marketing that anymore or putting it out there.

There is a lot of music in the world that I love that does not always get the appropriate exposure.

The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.

I think that in order for music to be heard in a lot of different situations you have to always consider that.

I feel like once the song is done, you put it out there and if people want to do bizarre remixes, if people want to make strange videos, great. You know, like chaos theory applied to the music business.

I don't mind what the market is, but why is it vapid? If they're such a bunch of idiots, why don't you show them good music instead? They're not going to know the difference.

I think music will thrive where it wants to.

It is one thing to record an album but it's a huge difference when people play it and listen to it and embrace it the way that I do. It has always been my dream to get my music out to the world and have people hear it.

Music is always going to be only as sophisticated as the culture that consumes it.