My own Brubeck Institute in California is turning out fantastic young jazz players, and I know great things will happen. — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think the church should strive to give parishioners good music. Music is as necessary for worship as a building with a beautiful altar,… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
My own Brubeck Institute in California is turning out fantastic young jazz players, and I know great things will happen. — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
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… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
Every individual should be expressing themselves, whether a politician or a minister or a policeman. — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
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… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
If there's a deadline, I work late. If not, I like to have normal hours, and get up early and work. When things are… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
My mother Elizabeth Ivey Brubeck was a pianist who studied with Dame Myra Hess and Tobias Matthey. As a child in California I used… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
That's the beauty of music. You can take a theme from a Bach sacred chorale and improvise. It doesn't make any difference where the… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
After the Second World War, I returned to California to study composition with Darius Milhaud, who wrote wonderful works like 'Le Boeuf sur le… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
I started growing up in a hurry and taking a lot of the philosophy I'd heard from church as a kid a lot more… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
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… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
