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Dave Brubeck has 51 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• 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…
• Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't…
• When I was 20, Shostakovich was my favorite composer. I still find his Fifth Symphony wonderful, with its outstanding themes and rhythms.…
• And there is a time where you can be beyond yourself. You can be better than your technique. You can be better…
• The worst thing about the life of a jazz musician on the road is getting to the gig. Once you're there and…
• I had the first integrated Army band in World War II.
• I wanted to be like my father, who was a cattle man and a rodeo roper. And that was - he was…
• 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…
• 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.
• When you hear Bach or Mozart, you hear perfection. Remember that Bach, Mozart and Beethoven were great improvisers. I can hear that…
• 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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