Top 100 Haden't Quotes
#1. Everytime a lawyer writes something, he is not writing for posterity, he is writing something so that endless others of his craft can make a living out of trying to figure out what he said. Course perhaps he really haden't said anything, that's what makes it so hard to explain.
Will Rogers
#2. The whole underlying theme for the new music ... is to communicate honest, human values, and in doing that to try to improve the quality of life.
Charlie Haden
#3. Sight is about what lies right in front of us. Vision is what lies ahead.
Thomas Haden Church
#4. Villains with a conscience have this sad realization of who they are, and the monster they've become - there's a sense of regret. So at the end of these movies there's a dramatic resonance that really stays with the audience.
Thomas Haden Church
#6. I certainly was an actor and then I drifted more towards writing and directing.
Thomas Haden Church
#7. I always told the people at Cal Arts that if they wanted me to do Jazz studies, first of all, there couldn't be a big band within 500 miles and that I could do what I wanted to do. And they said I could.
Charlie Haden
#8. I love going to the feed store and drinking coffee and talking about how much rain we need.
Thomas Haden Church
#9. There's like a special group of people that come from different parts of the planet to study with me. It's nice. I just gave a workshop in Boston at the New England Conservatory, which was really nice.
Charlie Haden
#10. Some tracks are with quartet and some tracks are with synthesizer.
Charlie Haden
#11. We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about.
Charlie Haden
#12. I always related my favorite music to the movies.
Petra Haden
#13. Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you would think the prospect of marriage, which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful, it's just really another kind of tangential thing in his life.
Thomas Haden Church
#14. You have to see your unimportance before you can see your importance and your significance to the world.
Charlie Haden
#15. It's true that I never want to hurt you. But I can't promise you that I never would -Haden
Gwen Hayes
#16. I've been an admirer of Helen Mirren for a long time. As I get older, I find myself admiring older women who have poise and elegance.
Thomas Haden Church
#17. Between Clive Owen winning at the Golden Globes and the British Academy announcing its nominations, of which Sideways received only one, I'm feeling pretty humbled these days.
Thomas Haden Church
#18. Children from like 8 and even up to the college age - Spider-Man appeals to a fairly broad demographic but, like I said, a mean age probably of 12 is a good mark - they process information so quickly and it's not because of attention deficit or short attention span.
Thomas Haden Church
#19. It used to be that creative music was most of the music that you heard back in the '30s and '40s, and now it's like 3 percent. So, its kind of a struggle getttin' it out there.
Charlie Haden
#20. Theia: "We're very high up here, aren't we?"
Haden: "Well, you certainly are. Theia, I need you to wake up."
Theia: "Did you know that I have never seen a penis?"
He laughed again. "When you wake up, you are going to hate yourself.
Gwen Hayes
#22. Seriously, you've been pretending to be a human for six months and you haven't heard of the movie Star Wars?
Bree Despain
#23. Before music there was silence and the duet format allows you to build from the silence in a very special way.
Charlie Haden
#25. In the midst of creating, a person is raised to another level of consciousness that doesn't have that much to do with everyday thinking. It's as if you could imagine life before there were words.
Charlie Haden
#26. I hate it when women fight aging with plastic surgery or fashion choices. There's this arrogant youth worship in our society.
Thomas Haden Church
#27. After Haden is gone, I pick up the list of things I know about him and add 'sometimes talks like Thor'.
Bree Despain
#28. If you are truly fearless as a performer, than you don't fear kids or dogs.
Thomas Haden Church
#29. My very own goth Mr. Darcy. Jane Austen would be so proud.
Gwen Hayes
#31. I did a series called Ned and Stacey for two years for Fox back in the 90s. I was writer on it as well as a producer, and it was very important to me that there were no contemporary references.
Thomas Haden Church
#32. But at the same time, if the right thing came along, I would do it in a second.
Thomas Haden Church
#33. Last summer when we were preparing for the movie, I actually kind of wanted to stay fairly uninformed about it. As we went through the process that we do in the movie, I wanted to be a little wide-eyed.
Thomas Haden Church
#34. I kind of have a rededication in my life now to acting because I'm very fond of being in this movie.
Thomas Haden Church
#35. And there have certainly been movies I wanted to be in and milestones I wanted to surpass that did not happen.
Thomas Haden Church
#36. I just try to play music from my heart and bring as much beauty as I can to as many people as I can. Just give them other alternatives, especially people who aren't exposed to creative music.
Charlie Haden
#37. Creative Arts raise a person to another level of consciousness as if you could imagine life before words.
Charlie Haden
#38. I have music inside me and I'm very lucky to be able to play music and that's the way that I try to do it.
Charlie Haden
#39. She's not merely my cat. She's my friend. She's my family.
Bree Despain
#40. We are men, and human words are all we have: even the Word of God is composed actually of the words of men." (HUNTING THE DIVINE FOX, by Robert Farrar Capon,
Suzette Haden Elgin
#41. One that always stings is "Grow up." And it stings most when you have the suspicion that it is justified, that you have just done somethingchildish and you got nailed for it. It's probably been said to me a few times.
Thomas Haden Church
#42. Peace of mind is the meaning of life" -Talisa Santiago (Spirit Seeker)
Jamie-Leigh Haden
#43. I have a healthy sense of vanity. I like to look good for myself, which is what a lot of women say. I want to stay fit.
Thomas Haden Church
#44. When I was recording my first solo album 'Imaginaryland,' I was listening to a lot of movie scores.
Petra Haden
#45. I just sit down at the piano and rattle it off.
Charlie Haden
#46. I would just turn into a giant pair of lips. "Oh God! There he is! It's Lip-Man!"
Thomas Haden Church
#47. It's one of those scenarios where no, I never imagined that I'd be directed in a love scene - not even a love scene because it's kind of a hard-core sex scene because it's kind of just purely played for this carnal venting.
Thomas Haden Church
#49. 'The Conversation' was a movie I saw probably for the first time in the early 2000s. I immediately loved the piano and just how simple it is.
Petra Haden
#50. The bass, no matter what kind of music you're playing, it just enhances the sound and makes everything sound more beautiful and full. When the bass stops, the bottom kind of drops out of everything.
Charlie Haden
#51. As an actor I kind of do. I started out doing voice overs in the mid 80s when I was in grad school.
Thomas Haden Church
#52. But to this day I am convinced that the real reason we met was because Alexander is from Nebraska, and he was completely fascinated that I was about to go off and make a movie with Brando - perhaps the most famous Nebraskan of all.
Thomas Haden Church
#54. As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that's never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish.
Charlie Haden
#56. I just see myself as a human being that's concerned about life.
Charlie Haden
#58. Nazareth wasted no time in anything she did, and years of experience with her brood of nine had given her a firm way of bustling another person along that was impressive even to a professional nurse who did professional person-bustling.
Suzette Haden Elgin
#59. I remember watching Looney Tunes cartoons and having the music stuck in my head.
Petra Haden
#60. 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.
Charlie Haden
#61. If you behave like a doormat, expect to be stepped on and don't complain about it.
Suzette Haden Elgin
#62. I'm not so proud to think that anything is unworthy, and I don't think I was that way 10 years ago.
Thomas Haden Church
#63. The two men sat there together, in the kind of silence that's not empty because it has the thoughts of two longtime friends to fill it.
Suzette Haden Elgin
#65. My will is pushed on only by the small grey hellcat who nips at my heels.
Bree Despain
#66. I probably am. I think Paul Giamatti also said in an interview that I was "f - king crazy." I'm flattered by that. I want to be that guy who's nuts who makes people think.
Thomas Haden Church
#67. When we first started playing we did a lot of rehearsing. We used to write out everything. In fact, that's the way everybody rehearses: we play the tunes and improvise.
Charlie Haden
#68. I believe in singularity in relationships because you've got to have trust on both sides.
Thomas Haden Church
#69. I wish I finished music school, because then I feel like I could talk more about the dissonant notes.
Petra Haden
#70. To some extent I could identify with that because I kind of just made my money and got out.
Thomas Haden Church
#71. Any tendency to design for design's sake, to create a pattern within which the owner must live according to rules set by the designer, is headed for frustration, if not disaster.
Thomas Haden Church
#72. Linguistics is our best tool for bringing about social change and SF is our best tool for testing such changes before they are implemented in the real world, therefore the conjunction of the two is desirable and should be useful.
Suzette Haden Elgin
#74. I like things that start depressing and dark and end up romantic, and that's what I really loved about 'King Kong.'
Petra Haden
#75. No longer were there "doctors" of anthropology and physics and literature to offend the real doctors and confuse the public; they had put a stop to that, as they had put a stop to so many things that were unseemly and inappropriate.
Suzette Haden Elgin
#76. When I moved to L.A. in 1989, the very first thing I did was this horrific pilot called To Protect And Surf.
Thomas Haden Church
#77. That's what I love about those old movies - the music is like a constant companion. Even in scenes that aren't particularly dramatic, like a woman checking her watch, you hear the music as a comment on that action.
Petra Haden
#79. He was using me. When he cast me in Sideways I was nothing but a vessel.
Thomas Haden Church
#80. I would say 95% of the time, because you just can't remember your lines if you're drinking alcohol. I would say about 95% of the time it was grape juice or this fake wine, which was horrible.
Thomas Haden Church
#81. I enjoy doing press for something that I like, and I think the movie is very fun and charming and clever.
Thomas Haden Church
#82. If you strive to become a good human being with the qualities of generosity, humility and having reverence for life ... just maybe you'll become a great musician.
Charlie Haden
#83. I love knowing that I'm not better than any other person on the planet.
Thomas Haden Church
#85. I don't want my hair to be ridiculous. But in Texas I do wear a hat a lot, so I probably have hat-head more than I'm aware of.
Thomas Haden Church
#87. But I think once the word gets out that the movie is funny - funny is transcendent - it will traverse all demographic barriers if people embrace it as a funny movie.
Thomas Haden Church
#88. The fact that I haven't been married might qualify me as belonging in the nutty category to a lot of women.
Thomas Haden Church
#90. Whatever you do, don't do anything that might make Brimstone mad.
Bree Despain
#91. He stayed carefully away from the profs, he ran the data they gave him without allowing any of it to register in his memory - that's what you have computers for, so you don't have to put stuff in your own memory - and that was all he did.
Suzette Haden Elgin
#92. Excuse me, lieutenant. I am not that kind of Underlord.
Bree Despain
#93. But she would learn. Every woman was a prisoner for life; it was not some burden that she bore uniquely. She would have all the company she could ever need. *
Suzette Haden Elgin
#94. James Cotton is a real blues guy, and he played with Muddy Waters, and it surprised me that they would want me to make a record with them, that he called me to do this record. I'd never done anything like that before. But I love blues, so I was very happy.
Charlie Haden
#95. Of course, anybody's who's 26 years old will probably say, "Of course the old guy would say that." But wait until you're 45 or 46 years old. See how you feel about it then.
Thomas Haden Church
#96. Of course I can keep secrets. It's the people I tell them to who can't keep them.
Anthony Haden-Guest
#97. I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves as jazz musicians, but thinking about themselves as good human beings, striving to be a great person and maybe they'll become a great musician.
Charlie Haden
#98. Old film-noir movies. There's something comforting about watching black-and-white movies, and hearing this kind of music just puts me in a fantasy world. It's a really great escape for me.
Petra Haden
#99. Chris (Anderson) is risking his life with every chord, that's how much it means to him. He has such a reverence for beauty, he plays like an angel.
Charlie Haden
