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Jazz Quotes by Dave Brubeck
- 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 dangerously where you're…
- Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist…
- And there is a time where you can be beyond yourself. You can be better than your technique. You can be better than most of…
- The worst thing about the life of a jazz musician on the road is getting to the gig. Once you're there and playing, it's marvelous.
- It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me.
- My own Brubeck Institute in California is turning out fantastic young jazz players, and I know great things will happen.
- Do you think Duke Ellington didn't listen to Debussy? Louis Armstrong loved opera, did you know that? Name me a jazz pianist who wasn't influenced…
- One of the reasons I believe in jazz is that the oneness of man can come through the rhythm of your heart. It’s the same…
- Jazz is about freedom within discipline.
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- I knew even if I'm a cowboy, I'm going to be involved in jazz in some way.
More Jazz Quotes
- If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know. — Louis Armstrong
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- We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself. — Louis Armstrong
- You blows who you is. — Louis Armstrong
- I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat,… — Travis Barker
- Everybody has the blues. Everybody longs for meaning. Everybody needs to love and be loved. Everybody needs to clap hands and be… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Just figure out what you think jazz is, and then if it fits into that category, it's jazz, and if it doesn't,… — Kenny G