Every individual should be expressing themselves, whether a politician or a minister or a policeman.
Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed… - Dave Brubeck
Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed…
- Dave Brubeck
I don't think you can separate a person's "style" and his persona. If you're writing or improvising honestly, you will inevitably reflect who you are. - Dave Brubeck
I don't think you can separate a person's "style" and his persona. If you're writing or improvising honestly, you will inevitably reflect who you are.
Don't be a perfectionist... leave that to the classical musicians. - Dave Brubeck
Don't be a perfectionist... leave that to the classical musicians.
There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a cha… - Dave Brubeck
There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a cha…
I’m beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82. - Dave Brubeck
I’m beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.
Kinship doesn't come from skin color. It's in your soul and your mind. - Dave Brubeck
Kinship doesn't come from skin color. It's in your soul and your mind.
When things are going well, I hate to quit. - Dave Brubeck
When things are going well, I hate to quit.
Art may not have the power to change the course of history, but it can provide a perspective on historical events that needs to be heard, even if it'… - Dave Brubeck
Art may not have the power to change the course of history, but it can provide a perspective on historical events that needs to be heard, even if it'…
I got a poster from Columbia Records, and there's Miles Davis, Charlie Mingus, Ellington, Count Basie - everybody in that poster has died, I'm the on… - Dave Brubeck
I got a poster from Columbia Records, and there's Miles Davis, Charlie Mingus, Ellington, Count Basie - everybody in that poster has died, I'm the on…
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