"Damn it, when I'm bombastic, I have my……" — Dave Brubeck
"Damn it, when I'm bombastic, I have my reasons. I want to be bombastic-take it or leave it."
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48 Quotes by Dave Brubeck
Dave Brubeck has 48 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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,…
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When I was 20, Shostakovich was my favorite composer. I still find his Fifth Symphony wonderful, with its outstanding themes…
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And there is a time where you can be beyond yourself. You can be better than your technique. You can…
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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…
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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 -…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck,…
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I was working in this very bombastic style. I didn’t really know about style. I didn’t think about it: I…
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Physically the Celts are terrifying in appearance, with deep sounding and very harsh voices. In conversation they use few words…
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In an ideal world, I'd bounce between big projects and no-budget TV dramas with fantastic scripts. A lot of Hollywood…
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Being bombastic for the sake of being bombastic has just never been my take on the world.
— Dannel Malloy
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I feel that a lot of British comedy is often too bombastic, too obvious, dressing up and shouting and pulling…
— Ricky Gervais
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I always thought that Seth [Rogen] was a fun, caustic, bombastic, sweet, underdog-type of person that I would root for…
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'The Simpsons' from the very beginning was based on our memories of brash '60s sitcoms - you had a main…
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I emphasize teachers because they are largely left out of the debate. None of the bombastic reports that come from…
— Jonathan Kozol
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What sounds good on the radio is really loud kick drums and loud snare drums, when everything's bombastic and in…
— Moby
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When playing big festivals, I tend to play big, over the top techno tracks, like hands in the air songs…
— Moby
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I'm too drunk to recall much of what I've said. Which, come to think of it, is probably just as…
— Iain Banks
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