Charlie Haden Quotes

The sound of the orchestra is one of the most magnificent musical sounds that has ever existed.

If you've only got one horn playing, I still want the sense of ensemble.

Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult.

You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it.

Harmonies are nice.

My dad always told me that anyone's voice is just another instrument added to the music.

I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace!

We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.

Saxophone is one thing, and music is another.

I like to be surrounded by harmonies and fullness and richness and vitality.

I like the sparkle of the vibraphone.

I love the word 'resonance.'

It is wonderful to see how happy all my friends in the LA Philharmonic are in their new home.

A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

The element of harmony is super important.

I always find that there is a real communication between voice and violin.

I'm very proud of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

The core of all the music I love is a good bass line and a good rhythm.

See deep enough, and you see musically.

The piano is an orchestra with 88...... things, you know

Have you seen a symphony orchestra? There is a person at the back carrying a triangle. Now and again the conductor will point to him or her and that person will play "ting." That might seem so insignificant, but in the conception of the composer something irreplaceable would be lost to the total beauty of the symphony if that "ting" did not happen.

There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.

At every moment, each instrument knew what to play. Its little bit. But none could see the whole thing like this, all at once, only its own part. Just like life. Each person was like a line of music, but nobody knew what the symphony sounded like. Only the conductor had the whole score.

I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music.

Music is the reaching out towards the utmost realities by means of ordered sound.