I always felt that I was born in the wrong era. I wanted to be friends with John Garfield, for instance.

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• Charlie Haden:

  I wish I could've been friends with Charlie Parker and played with him. That's my period. I feel re

• Charlie Haden:

  My parents were on the Grand Ole Opry. They traveled all over the country singing hillbilly music.

• Charlie Haden:

  I don't sing now, because I had polio when I was 15, bulbar polio. This was when the epidemic was h

• Charlie Haden:

  I listened to classical music. I listened to jazz. I listened to everything. And I started becoming

• Charlie Haden:

  I can write a song about my hero Che Guevara and call it 'Song for Che.'

• Charlie Haden:

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• Charlie Haden:

  I want to expand jazz; I don't want to keep the audience limited. I want to reach people who have n

• Charlie Haden:

  When you listen to a symphony orchestra, and the basses don't - there's no bass part, there's not t

• Ben Lewin:

  I have always enjoyed the company of women.

• Ben Lewin:

  I am more connected to the world of the imagination, but you don't have to have polio to do that.