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Dave Brubeck has 51 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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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…
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When I was 20, Shostakovich was my favorite composer. I still find his Fifth Symphony wonderful, with its outstanding themes and rhythms.…
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And there is a time where you can be beyond yourself. You can be better than your technique. You can be better…
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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…
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I had the first integrated Army band in World War II.
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I wanted to be like my father, who was a cattle man and a rodeo roper. And that was - he was…
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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…
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It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me.
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My own Brubeck Institute in California is turning out fantastic young jazz players, and I know great things will happen.
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When you hear Bach or Mozart, you hear perfection. Remember that Bach, Mozart and Beethoven were great improvisers. I can hear that…
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Do you think Duke Ellington didn't listen to Debussy? Louis Armstrong loved opera, did you know that? Name me a jazz pianist…
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So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.
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The worst thing I could be thinking is how could I be a cool bass player.
— Mike Gordon
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I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver.
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I was always the sexy bass player in the background while Robin stood centre. Barry and I played it up a bit,…
— Maurice Gibb
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As I said, when we needed to move over to rock'n'roll, Sam and Vernon couldn't quite make the shift. So that's when…
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I love playing with Jeff. That's something I never really say in the press, but he's my favorite bass player. I've played…
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Bach is really the ultimate in bass players you know
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