Dave Brubeck Quotes

• One of the reasons I believe in jazz is that the oneness of man can come through the rhythm of your heart. It’s the same anyplace in the world, that heartbeat. It’s the first thing you hear when you’re born — or before you’re born — and it’s the last thing you hear.

  Dave Brubeck

  Music, Believe, Heart

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians.

  Dave Brubeck

  Voice, Musician, Chance

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• The secret of a great melody is a secret.

  Dave Brubeck

  Writing, Secret, Songwriting

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• Jazz is about the only form of art existing today in which there is freedom of the individual without the loss of group contact.

  Dave Brubeck

  Music, Art, Loss

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• Hay una forma de jugar segura, hay una forma de usar trucos y está la forma en que me gusta jugar, que es peligrosa, en la que te arriesgas a cometer errores para crear algo que no has creado antes.

  Dave Brubeck

  Music, Mistake, Order

  FaceBook post by Dave Brubeck from Aug 14, 2012

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• Kinship doesn't come from skin color. It's in your soul and your mind.

  Dave Brubeck

  Music, Skin Color, Soul

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• I’m beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.

  Dave Brubeck

  Able, Rock N Roll, Has Beens

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• Don't be a perfectionist... leave that to the classical musicians.

  Dave Brubeck

  Musician, Jazz, Perfectionist

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• Many people don't understand how disciplined you have to be to play jazz... And that is really the idea of democracy - freedom within the Constitution or discipline. You don't just get out there and do anything you want.

  Dave Brubeck

  Play, Ideas, Discipline

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• Art may not have the power to change the course of history, but it can provide a perspective on historical events that needs to be heard, even if it's seldom heeded. After all the temporary influences that once directed the course of history have vanished, great art survives and continues to speak to each generation.

  Dave Brubeck

  Art, Perspective, Historical

  Fuente: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• I wasn't allowed to play in some universities in the United States and out of twenty-five concerts, twenty-three were canceled unless I would substitute my black bass player for my old white bass player, which I wouldn't do.

  Dave Brubeck

  Player, White, Black

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• When things are going well, I hate to quit.

  Dave Brubeck

  Hate, Quitting, I Hate

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• Maldita sea, cuando soy grandilocuente, tengo mis razones. Quiero ser grandilocuente, lo tomas o lo dejas.

  Dave Brubeck

  Music, Want, Jazz

  Doug Ramsey, Dave Brubeck, Iola Brubeck, Paul Caulfield (2005). “Take five: the public and private lives of Paul Desmond”, Parkside Pubns

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• Jazz is about freedom within discipline.

  Dave Brubeck

  Discipline, Jazz

  "Dave Brubeck celebrates a swinging 85th", www.today.com. December 8, 2005.

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• Duke Ellington, Art Tatum, and many other great jazz musicians objected to their music being called jazz. While the outside world may want to put a label on it, those who create it think of it just as music, and tend not to classify it.

  Dave Brubeck

  Art, Thinking, Musician

  Fuente: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• I don't think you can separate a person's "style" and his persona. If you're writing or improvising honestly, you will inevitably reflect who you are.

  Dave Brubeck

  Escribir, pensar, estilo

  Fuente: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed to represent freedom, democracy and the United States.

  Dave Brubeck

  Russia, Discipline, Democracy

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• It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me.

  Dave Brubeck

  Piano Music, Orchestra, Jazz

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• Probablemente lo más profundo de la Biblia es 'Amad a vuestros enemigos, haced el bien a los que os odian'. Esto es, para mí, la esencia del cristianismo.

  Dave Brubeck

  Inspirational, Hate, Love You

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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 there and playing, it's marvelous.

  Dave Brubeck

  Musician, Gigs, Jazz

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• I'm always hoping for the nights that are inspired where you almost have an out of body experience

  Dave Brubeck

  Night, Body, Rock N Roll

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• When I was first aware that I couldn't read music I didn't know I couldn't read because I could play the music that was in front of me.

  Dave Brubeck

  Play, Firsts, Knows

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• We don't know the power that's within our own bodies

  Dave Brubeck

  Body, Knows

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• I have more energy at the end than I do at the beginning. You can be so beat up that you can scarcely walk on stage but when you get to the piano the excitement kicks in, you forget about being tired.

  Dave Brubeck

  Tired, Piano, Energy

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• I prefer no one to teach me. I prefer to swing on my own.

  Dave Brubeck

  Swings, Jazz, Teach

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