"Jazz is about freedom within discipline." — Dave Brubeck
"Jazz is about freedom within discipline."
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Dave Brubeck
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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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More Discipline Quotes
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What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
— Aristotle
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In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were…
— Karen Armstrong
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The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
— Fred Astaire
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If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you…
— Russell Banks
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To say that I have an undisciplined mind would not be incorrect overall, but it's a little off the mark…
— Roseanne Barr
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Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little…
— Bruce Barton
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The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to…
— Bernard Baruch
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From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work.
— Dirk Benedict
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As a man may be born with a mathematical faculty, and by training that faculty year after year may immensely…
— Annie Besant
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Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.
— Theodor Adorno
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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage,…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I'm not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time.
— Bjork
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