"I wanted to be like my father, who……" — Dave Brubeck
"I wanted to be like my father, who was a cattle man and a rodeo roper. And that was - he was my hero, and I wanted to be more like him."
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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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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 Cattle Quotes
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one of 184 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling…
— Diane Ackerman
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But it's not just the cattle producers, it's all the attendant industries like transport and shipping and feed producers and…
— Julie Bishop
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Thanks to farm subsidies, the fine collaboration between agribusiness and Congress, soy, corn and cattle became king. And chicken soon…
— Mark Bittman
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My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned four…
— Dave Brubeck
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"You got beef, bring your cow, I will cattle you"
— Lil Wayne
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A study of Disease-of Pestilences methodically prepared and deliberately launched upon man and beast-is certainly being pursue in the laboratories…
— Winston Churchill
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Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
— Wilfred Owen
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Come to earth to taste our sadness, He whose glories knew no end. By His life He brings us gladness,…
— Charles Wesley
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Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered.…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Forests and trees make significant direct contributions to the nutrition of poor households ... [as] rural communities in Central Africa…
— Frances Ford Seymour
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That's right-the striking thing about greenhouse gases is the diversity of sources that emit them. A herd of cattle belching…
— Thomas Friedman
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