I wasn't allowed to play in some universities in the United States and out of twenty-five concerts, twenty-three were canceled unless I would substitute my black bass player for my old white bass player, which I wouldn't do.
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.
When things are going well, I hate to quit. - Dave Brubeck
When things are going well, I hate to quit.
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.
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'…
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 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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