Dave Brubeck Quotes

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• 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

  Voice, Musician, Chance

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• One of the reasons I believe in jazz is that the oneness of man can come through the rhythm of your heart. It’s the same anyplace in the world, that heartbeat. It’s the first thing you hear when you’re born — or before you’re born — and it’s the last thing you hear.

  Dave Brubeck

  Music, Believe, Heart

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The secret of a great melody is a secret.

  Dave Brubeck

  Writing, Secret, Songwriting

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• Jazz is about the only form of art existing today in which there is freedom of the individual without the loss of group contact.

  Dave Brubeck

  Music, Art, Loss

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• 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

  Music, Mistake, Order

  FaceBook post by Dave Brubeck from Aug 14, 2012

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• Don't be a perfectionist... leave that to the classical musicians.

  Dave Brubeck

  Musician, Jazz, Perfectionist

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• 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

  Able, Rock N Roll, Has Beens

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

  Dave Brubeck

  Music, Skin Color, Soul

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• Many people don't understand how disciplined you have to be to play jazz... And that is really the idea of democracy - freedom within the Constitution or discipline. You don't just get out there and do anything you want.

  Dave Brubeck

  Play, Ideas, Discipline

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• 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's seldom heeded. After all the temporary influences that once directed the course of history have vanished, great art survives and continues to speak to each generation.

  Dave Brubeck

  Art, Perspective, Historical

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• Jazz is about freedom within discipline.

  Dave Brubeck

  Discipline, Jazz

  "Dave Brubeck celebrates a swinging 85th", www.today.com. December 8, 2005.

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• When things are going well, I hate to quit.

  Dave Brubeck

  Hate, Quitting, I Hate

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• 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.

  Dave Brubeck

  Player, White, Black

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

  Dave Brubeck

  Music, Want, Jazz

  Doug Ramsey, Dave Brubeck, Iola Brubeck, Paul Caulfield (2005). “Take five: the public and private lives of Paul Desmond”, Parkside Pubns

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• 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

  Inspirational, Hate, Love You

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• 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

  Writing, Thinking, Style

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed to represent freedom, democracy and the United States.

  Dave Brubeck

  Russia, Discipline, Democracy

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• We don't know the power that's within our own bodies

  Dave Brubeck

  Body, Knows

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

  Dave Brubeck

  Piano Music, Orchestra, Jazz

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• Duke Ellington, Art Tatum, and many other great jazz musicians objected to their music being called jazz. While the outside world may want to put a label on it, those who create it think of it just as music, and tend not to classify it.

  Dave Brubeck

  Art, Thinking, Musician

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• I'm always hoping for the nights that are inspired where you almost have an out of body experience

  Dave Brubeck

  Night, Body, Rock N Roll

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• Jazz stands for freedom.

  Dave Brubeck

  Jazz

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• 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

  Musician, Gigs, Jazz

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• I have more energy at the end than I do at the beginning. You can be so beat up that you can scarcely walk on stage but when you get to the piano the excitement kicks in, you forget about being tired.

  Dave Brubeck

  Tired, Piano, Energy

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• Every individual should be expressing themselves, whether a politician or a minister or a policeman.

  Dave Brubeck

  Politician, Individual, Ministers

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