Charles Lloyd Quotes

• I dream of a peaceful world. Music is the best means I have to work on that dream. Each time I have the opportunity to play, it is another chance to tell the truth. Life on the planet has come down to such an acute degree of ADD it is terrifying. We are constantly being bombarded from all directions with information - most of it useless that serves to bifurcate the mind. I am afraid that people are going to go from birth to death and never know they were here or why they were here.

  Charles Lloyd

  Dream, Mean, Opportunity

  "A Fireside Chat With Charles Lloyd". All About Jazz Interview, www.allaboutjazz.com. May 17, 2004.

  12 Copy quote

• My music, it breathes. It's the mysticism of sound. I'm a sound seeker, and I'm enthralled with it, by what it can do to change the molecules and uplift people. They feel something when we play. I can't take authorship for that. I can take that I'm in service.

  Charles Lloyd

  Uplifting, Play, People

  11 Copy quote

• [Jazz] is a music of freedom and wonder. It's our indigenous art form, and I'm still blessed to travel around the world and people lay out the carpet for us, so it's quite touching.

  Charles Lloyd

  Art, Blessed, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

  6 Copy quote

• I think when you love music, you love a lot of it. Now when it comes to jazz, it's very much in the hyperions of height. You go exploring every night.

  Charles Lloyd

  Night, Thinking, Height

  Source: www.pbs.org

  6 Copy quote

• I was born in Memphis. There was music all around me, really deep and special music. I heard all these great masters at a young age.There was a great genius in my town, Phineas Newborn, who is one of the greatest pianists ever on the planet. He took me under his wings at about 9 and he put me on the right track.

  Charles Lloyd

  Wings, Track, Age

  Source: www.pbs.org

  13 Copy quote

• The youngster in me is still alive and kicking. I was infected by music at a very young age, so it's always kept me younger than springtime.

  Charles Lloyd

  Age, Kicking, Alive

  Source: www.pbs.org

  8 Copy quote

• I think that music makers just really bless the planet.

  Charles Lloyd

  Thinking, Bless, Makers

  Source: www.pbs.org

  4 Copy quote

• I was a time bomb waiting to detonate, burned out, sick of the music business, out of touch with everything and heavily abusing various substances, disillusioned with life, and intensely needed to work on my character. The only way I could see to do that was to withdraw completely from public life as I had known it before.

  Charles Lloyd

  Character, Sick, Waiting

  "A Fireside Chat With Charles Lloyd". All About Jazz Interview, www.allaboutjazz.com. May 17, 2004.

  8 Copy quote

• All my life I'm trying to go forward and trying to grow.

  Charles Lloyd

  Trying, Grows

  Source: www.pbs.org

  5 Copy quote

• Spirituality is a word that is bandied about a lot. So I think it might mean different things to different people. I know that the United States of America is something of a religious country, but not necessarily a spiritual country.

  Charles Lloyd

  Spiritual, Country, Religious

  "A Fireside Chat With Charles Lloyd". All About Jazz Interview, www.allaboutjazz.com. May 17, 2004.

  7 Copy quote

• I was always moved by all of the music. As a young man, Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton, Count Basie and all these great musicians would come through our town of Memphis. There wasn't adequate hotels, so these musicians - the lady who ran the theater knew my mother, who had a large house, and many of them would stay with us. So that was another great blessing, so I'm always around these great geniuses, and to realize their humanity is such a touching thing.

  Charles Lloyd

  Mother, Men, Blessing

  Source: www.pbs.org

  6 Copy quote

• Tim Price is truly blessed - he plays music because he loves it.

  Charles Lloyd

  Blessed, Play, Music Is

  4 Copy quote

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin