When you start out with goals - mine were to play polytonally and polyrhythmically - you never exhaust that. I started doing… — 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… — 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… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
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… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
Many people don't understand how disciplined you have to be to play jazz... And that is really the idea of democracy -… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
When I was first aware that I couldn't read music I didn't know I couldn't read because I could play the music… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
You could play probably a span of 50 years of me playing St. Louis Blues, and most of the time it will… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
What I want to happen is to be really creative, and to play something new in the improvisations, every time. — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
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… — 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
