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You 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…
- 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.
- 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 see it in…
- 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…
- I played a lot of sports and it's the plays in basketball that weren't worked out that are the ones that are just fantastic that…
- I was always very aware of drummers. My oldest brother Henry was a drummer, and he drummed on everything in the house from the kitchen…
- 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 have more energy at the end than I do at the beginning. You can be so beat up that you can scarcely walk on…
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- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
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- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello