Quotes by Dave Brubeck

Dave Brubeck

And there is a time where you can be beyond yourself. You can be better than your technique. You can be better than most of your usual ideas. And this is a whole other category that you can get into.

Ideas

Technique

Usual

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.

Art

Historical

Perspective

Damn it, when I’m bombastic, I have my reasons. I want to be bombastic-take it or leave it.

Jazz

Music

Want

Don’t be a perfectionist… leave that to the classical musicians.

Jazz

Musician

Perfectionist

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.

Art

Musician

Thinking

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.

Style

Thinking

Writing

I had the first integrated Army band in World War II.

Army

Band

War

I knew I wanted to write on religious themes when I was a GI in World War II. I saw and experienced so much violence that I thought I could express my outrage best with music.

Religious

War

Writing

I never wanted this kind of life that Im still living.

Kind

Stills

Wanted

I played a lot of sports and it’s the plays in basketball that weren’t worked out that are the ones that are just fantastic that you remember. We don’t know the power that’s within our own bodies.

Basketball

Inspirational

Sports

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Able

Army

Art

Band

Basketball

Beautiful

Believe

Body

Chance

Christian

Creative

Different

Discipline

Firsts

Giving

Has Beens

Hate

Historical

Hurt

I Hate

Ideas

Inspirational

Inspired

Jazz

Kind

Knows

Lasts

Love You

Mother

Music

Musician

Night

Normal

People

Perfectionist

Perspective

Pieces

Play

Prayer

Quitting

Reality

Religious

Rock N Roll

Secret

Simple

Skin Color

Songwriting

Soul

Sound

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Quotes by Dave Brubeck

Dave Brubeck

And there is a time where you can be beyond yourself. You can be better than your technique. You can be better than most of your usual ideas. And this is a whole other category that you can get into.

Damn it, when I’m bombastic, I have my reasons. I want to be bombastic-take it or leave it.

Don’t be a perfectionist… leave that to the classical musicians.

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.

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.

I had the first integrated Army band in World War II.

I knew I wanted to write on religious themes when I was a GI in World War II. I saw and experienced so much violence that I thought I could express my outrage best with music.

I never wanted this kind of life that Im still living.

I played a lot of sports and it’s the plays in basketball that weren’t worked out that are the ones that are just fantastic that you remember. We don’t know the power that’s within our own bodies.

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