"I had the first integrated Army band in…" — Dave Brubeck
"I had the first integrated Army band in World War II."
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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 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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I got a poster from Columbia Records, and there's Miles Davis, Charlie Mingus, Ellington, Count Basie - everybody in that…
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More Army Quotes
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one of 1,821 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but…
— Arthur Ashe
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You never find yourself until you face the truth.
— Pearl Bailey
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That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and…
— Amelia Barr
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Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
— Jane Addams
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Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of…
— Joseph Addison
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Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.
— Alexander Graham Bell
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Back in Chicago, all we cared about was rock 'n' roll and staying out of the army.
— John Belushi
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I like army boots, I like peasant skirts - sometimes together! So I do know that I have odd taste.
— Mayim Bialik
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It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
— Aesop
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My dad was in the Army. The Army's not great pay, but, you know, we moved from Army patch to…
— James Blunt
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Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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