18 Dave Brubeck Quotes for You to Enjoy

Dave Brubeck

American Musician

Born: Dec 6, 1920

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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

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. Dave Brubeck

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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

Myself Great Beginning Would Able Rather Understand Been Than

I started growing up in a hurry and taking a lot of the philosophy I'd heard from church as a kid a lot more seriously - especially the Ten Commandments - and wondering how 'Thou shalt not kill' could be so absolutely ignored. It took me until I was in my 40s to write what I was thinking as a young soldier. Dave Brubeck

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

Me Piano Like Orchestra Whole

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

You Experience Nights Out Hoping Inspired Almost Always Where Body

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. Dave Brubeck

You Sports Remember Power Own Our Out Know Within Were Lot Just Fantastic Worked Bodies Played Basketball Plays

If there's a deadline, I work late. If not, I like to have normal hours, and get up early and work. When things are going well, I hate to quit. And then I'll work 'till exhausted. Dave Brubeck

Work Hate Exhausted Late Like Hours Well Deadline Till Normal Up Get Quit Going Then Things Early

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

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I knew even if I'm a cowboy, I'm going to be involved in jazz in some way. Dave Brubeck

Jazz Way Some Knew Involved Cowboy Going Even

When you start out with goals - mine were to play polytonally and polyrhythmically - you never exhaust that. I started doing that in the 1940s. It's still a challenge to discover what can be done with just those two elements. Dave Brubeck

You Goals Challenge Mine Those Out Never Exhaust Still Doing Were Discover Done Just Elements Play Start Started Two

When you hear Bach or Mozart, you hear perfection. Remember that Bach, Mozart and Beethoven were great improvisers. I can hear that in their music. Dave Brubeck

Music Great You Remember Bach Perfection Were Hear Beethoven Mozart

I was always very aware of drummers. My oldest brother Henry was a drummer, and he drummed on everything in the house from the kitchen sink to stovepipes. He was the first drummer in the Gil Evans Orchestra, so you've got to know how great he was. Dave Brubeck

I got a poster from Columbia Records, and there's Miles Davis, Charlie Mingus, Ellington, Count Basie - everybody in that poster has died, I'm the only one left. And great players like Paul Desmond and Gerry Mulligan, it's hard to believe they're gone because we were all so close. But I believe in the future and the tradition will go on. Dave Brubeck

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