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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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For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun.
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A strange thing has happened - while all the other arts were born naked, this, the youngest, has been born fully-clothed. It…
— Virginia Woolf
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I wish to thank Steinway for its wonderful pianos which I've been privileged to play in all my concerts. There is no…
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Steinway grand pianos are the best in the world.
— Maurizio Pollini
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It is a privilege and an honor to perform on Steinway pianos.
— Diana Krall
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I loved grand pianos and small pianos, too.
— Alicia Keys
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In one of our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 pounds on an iron frame. It is…
— Unknown Author
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Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it
— Vanessa Carlton
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I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was…
— Colin Hay
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It was a very odd household, because the grandmothers were so different. Both of them had their own pianos. So it would…
— Diane Cilento
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There is always a piano in an hotel drawing-room, on which, of course, some one of the forlorn ladies is generally employed.…
— Anthony Trollope
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Did you know that Mozart had no arms and no legs? I've seen statues of him on people's pianos.
— Victor Borge
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