Composer Quote by Dave Brubeck

I think the church should strive to give parishioners good music. Music is as necessary for worship as a building with a beautiful altar,…

— Dave Brubeck

My own Brubeck Institute in California is turning out fantastic young jazz players, and I know great things will happen.

— Dave Brubeck

You have to be taught to hate.

— Dave Brubeck

Every individual should be expressing themselves, whether a politician or a minister or a policeman.

— Dave Brubeck

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…

— Dave Brubeck

If there's a deadline, I work late. If not, I like to have normal hours, and get up early and work. When things are…

— Dave Brubeck

My mother Elizabeth Ivey Brubeck was a pianist who studied with Dame Myra Hess and Tobias Matthey. As a child in California I used…

— Dave Brubeck

That's the beauty of music. You can take a theme from a Bach sacred chorale and improvise. It doesn't make any difference where the…

— Dave Brubeck

After the Second World War, I returned to California to study composition with Darius Milhaud, who wrote wonderful works like 'Le Boeuf sur le…

— Dave Brubeck

I started growing up in a hurry and taking a lot of the philosophy I'd heard from church as a kid a lot more…

— Dave Brubeck

My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned four cattle that he gave…

— Dave Brubeck

Many people don't understand how disciplined you have to be to play jazz... And that is really the idea of democracy - freedom within…

— Dave Brubeck