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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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I can only be me. I do what I do, I'm not a jazz player. ... I don't play jazz standards, at…
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Everybody in all countries tries to play jazz.
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As long as there is democracy, there will be people wanting to play jazz because nothing else will ever so perfectly capture…
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I still play jazz, and I've always got that trumpet very handy, but I'm coming to feel the classical venues are where…
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If you play jazz, then you play with your fingers. If you're playing rock, you use a pick. There's really no rhyme…
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I started to play Jazz music in my early teens. A boyfriend brought records over, so I listened to everything
— Marian McPartland
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You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it?
— Charlie Watts
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Many people don't understand how disciplined you have to be to play jazz... And that is really the idea of democracy -…
— Dave Brubeck
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I'd rather play jazz, I hate rock and roll.
— Ginger Baker
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In order to play jazz, you have to be able to play the blues.
— Robert Cray
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In order for a musician to grow, he's got to pay his dues. Some musicians ask me, 'well, what do you mean?…
— Woody Shaw
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I think I was supposed to play jazz.
— Herbie Hancock
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