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Music 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…
- When you hear Bach or Mozart, you hear perfection. Remember that Bach, Mozart and Beethoven were great improvisers. I can hear that in their music.
- 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…
- 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,…
- The first choral music I remember hearing was Handel's 'Messiah' when the Mormon Tabernacle Choir broadcast it over the radio.
- 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…
- 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…
- Kinship doesn't come from skin color. It's in your soul and your mind.
- Damn it, when I'm bombastic, I have my reasons. I want to be bombastic-take it or leave it.
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- I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. — Billie Joe Armstrong
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- For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. — Louis Armstrong
- All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong
- What we play is life. — Louis Armstrong
- If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know. — Louis Armstrong
- We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself. — Louis Armstrong