Dave Brubeck Quotes

• I used to take my mother to Yosemite. When I turned 14, I got my driver’s license, and that’s where she’d want to go, so I’d go take her there for two weeks.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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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• I knew even if I’m a cowboy, I’m going to be involved in jazz in some way.

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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.

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• 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.

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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 jazz pianist who wasn’t influenced by European music!

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• Concord, California was a great place to grow up.

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• After the Second World War, I returned to California to study composition with Darius Milhaud, who wrote wonderful works like ‘Le Boeuf sur le Toit’ and ‘La Cretion du Monde.’ I especially enjoy his work for two pianos, ‘Scaramouche.’

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

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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 which is dangerously where you’re going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven’t created before.

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

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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.

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

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

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• 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.

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Dave Brubeck (37)

Birth:	6th December, 1920
Death:	5th December, 2012
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Bandleader, Composer, Pianist

About

David Warren "Dave" Brubeck was born in Concord, California. He was an American jazz pianist, bandleader and composer. He wrote a number of jazz standards, including "In Your Own Sweet Way" and "The Duke." His music is known for employing unusual time signatures, and superimposing contrasting rhythms, meters, and tonalities. He was also a respected composer of orchestral and sacred music, and wrote soundtracks for television such as Mr. Broadway and the animated miniseries This Is America, Charlie Brown.

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