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I'm beginning to understand my...

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 69 quotes

I played a lot of sports and i...

I played a lot of sports and it's the plays in basketball that weren't worked out that are the ones that are just fantastic that you remember. We don't know the power that's within our own bodies.

Dave Brubeck 69 quotes

There's a way of playing safe,...

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 chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before.

Dave Brubeck 69 quotes

Jazz stands for freedom. It's ...

Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians.

Dave Brubeck 69 quotes

When I was 20, Shostakovich wa...

When I was 20, Shostakovich was my favorite composer. I still find his Fifth Symphony wonderful, with its outstanding themes and rhythms. That's the piece that made me want to be a classical composer.

Dave Brubeck 69 quotes

And there is a time where you ...

And there is a time where you can be beyond yourself. You can be better than your technique. You can be better than most of your usual ideas. And this is a whole other category that you can get into.

Dave Brubeck 69 quotes

The worst thing about the life...

The worst thing about the life of a jazz musician on the road is getting to the gig. Once you're there and playing, it's marvelous.

Dave Brubeck 69 quotes

I had the first integrated Arm...

I had the first integrated Army band in World War II.

Dave Brubeck 69 quotes

I wanted to be like my father,...

I wanted to be like my father, who was a cattle man and a rodeo roper. And that was - he was my hero, and I wanted to be more like him.

Dave Brubeck 69 quotes

If I told you all the people t...

If I told you all the people that have secretly told me I've influenced them, you'd never believe it, and you'll never see it in print, either.

Dave Brubeck 69 quotes

It's like a whole orchestra, t...

It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me.

Dave Brubeck 69 quotes

My own Brubeck Institute in Ca...

My own Brubeck Institute in California is turning out fantastic young jazz players, and I know great things will happen.

Dave Brubeck 69 quotes

When you hear Bach or Mozart, ...

When you hear Bach or Mozart, you hear perfection. Remember that Bach, Mozart and Beethoven were great improvisers. I can hear that in their music.

Dave Brubeck 69 quotes

Do you think Duke Ellington di...

Do you think Duke Ellington didn't listen to Debussy? Louis Armstrong loved opera, did you know that? Name me a jazz pianist who wasn't influenced by European music!

Dave Brubeck 69 quotes

I got a poster from Columbia R...

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 only one left. And great players like Paul Desmond and Gerry Mulligan, it's hard to believe they're gone because we were all so close. But I believe in the future and the tradition will go on.

Dave Brubeck 69 quotes

My dad was the manager at the ...

My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned four cattle that he gave to me when I graduated from grammar school, from the eighth grade. And those cows multiplied, and he kept track of them for years for me. And that was my herd.

Dave Brubeck 69 quotes

My mother Elizabeth Ivey Brube...

My mother Elizabeth Ivey Brubeck was a pianist who studied with Dame Myra Hess and Tobias Matthey. As a child in California I used to listen to her play Chopin.

Dave Brubeck 69 quotes

Probably the most profound thi...

Probably the most profound thing in the Bible is 'Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you.' This is what, to me, is the essence of Christianity.

Dave Brubeck 69 quotes

Damn it, when I'm bombastic, I...

Damn it, when I'm bombastic, I have my reasons. I want to be bombastic-take it or leave it.

Dave Brubeck 69 quotes

Kinship doesn't come from skin...

Kinship doesn't come from skin color. It's in your soul and your mind.

Dave Brubeck 69 quotes

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