Brubeck Quotes by Paul Desmond

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• I'm glad [Ornette Coleman] is such an individualist. I like the firmness of thought and purpose that goes into what he's doing,…
• The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity.
• Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.
• I tried practicing for a few weeks and ended up playing too fast.
• Our basic audience begins with creaking elderly types of twenty-three and above.
• Sometimes I get the feeling that there are orgies going on all over new York City, and somebody says, `Let's call Desmond,'…
• Complexity can be a trap. You can have a ball developing a phrase, inverting it, playing it in different keys and times…
• We used to get on planes, and they'd ask who we were, and we'd say, 'The Dave Brubeck Quartet', and they'd say,…
• It was never supposed to be a hit. It was supposed to be a Joe Morello drum solo,
• I discovered early in life that if you take gym first period, you can go into the wrestling room and sit in…
• We're working as if it were going out of style-which of course it is.
• I was unfashionable before anyone knew who I was.

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