"Your mother’s heartbeat is the first sound you……" — Dave Brubeck
"Your mother’s heartbeat is the first sound you ever hear and your own heartbeat is the last."
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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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I, myself, write to change my life, to make it come out the way I want it to. But other…
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Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born…
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People say, well, do you ever hear any other voices other than, like, a few people? Of course I do.
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Your poems are rather hard to understand, whereas your paintings are so easy. Easy? Of course - you paint flowers…
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In a 'wheat and tares' world, how unusually blessed faithful members are to have the precious and constant gift of…
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Now whether you like it or not, whether you want to admit it or not, whether you want to operate…
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I swear I have never told a player to attack another player. In fact, I have told my players if…
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