Best Dave Brubeck Quotes
- Your mother’s heartbeat is the first sound you ever hear and your own heartbeat is the last. Ever Hear
- 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… Basketball
- Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Discipline
- 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… Allowed
- I was always very aware of drummers. My oldest brother Henry was a drummer, and he drummed on everything in the house from the kitchen… Aware
- 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 going… Deadline
- It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me. And also it's to me the greatest instrument. I shouldn't say that, but I believe that… Believe
- 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… Democracy
- Jazz isn't dead yet. It's the underpinning of everything in this country. Whether it's a Broadway show, or fusion, or right on through classical music,… Broadway
- 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
- The first choral music I remember hearing was Handel's 'Messiah' when the Mormon Tabernacle Choir broadcast it over the radio. Broadcast
- What I want to happen is to be really creative, and to play something new in the improvisations, every time. Creative
- After the Second World War, I returned to California to study composition with Darius Milhaud, who wrote wonderful works like 'Le Boeuf sur le Toit'… Boeuf
- Concord, California was a great place to grow up. California
- 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… Beat
- I knew even if I'm a cowboy, I'm going to be involved in jazz in some way. Cowboy
- I knew I wanted to write on religious themes when I was a GI in World War II. I saw and experienced so much violence… Best
- 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 seriously… Absolutely
- I used to take my mother to Yosemite. When I turned 14, I got my driver's license, and that's where she'd want to go, so… Driver
- 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 that was in… Aware
- 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… Bible
- Kinship doesn't come from skin color. It's in your soul and your mind. Color
- Damn it, when I'm bombastic, I have my reasons. I want to be bombastic-take it or leave it. Bombastic