David Baker Quotes

• When I look back now, it must have been like Paris was at the time of Le Sacre du Printemps.

  David Baker

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Paris

• What that book does for me is give me the tools in the same way that I had the tools when I learned the regular scales or the alphabet. If you give me the tools, the syntax, and the grammar, it still doesn’t tell me how to write Ulysses.

  David Baker

  Tags in Alphabet, Scales, Give Me

• The Palestinian Authority refuses on an ongoing basis to take the necessary steps to prevent terrorists from getting into Israel.

  David Baker

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Refuses

• That is, the only reason salvation is necessary is to get us back to the garden. The Pentateuch not only presents where we began but also why we are not there any more, and why and how we need to get back.

  David Baker

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Salvation, Garden

• No one bill will cure the problem of spam. It will take a combined effort of legislation, litigation, enforcement, customer education, and technology solutions.

  David Baker

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Litigation, Spam, Bill, Customer

• It is rare that even a jazz musician finds an individual voice.

  David Baker

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rare, Musician, Finds

• In retrospect I realize that the threat was about ego rather than the validity of the music.

  David Baker

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Retrospect, Validity, Threat, Ego

• I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can’t name you 20 people outside those we’ve already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation.

  David Baker

  Tags in Innovation, Imitation, Recognized, Assimilation

• I think we all realized that we had really been replicating things that had already been happening. I don’t know if we were smart enough to realize that we were in a cul-de-sac, but we were curious.

  David Baker

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happening, Smart, Curious

• I believe without exception that theory follows practice. Whenever there is a conflict between theory and practice, theory is wrong. As far as I’m concerned, we make theories for what people have done.

  David Baker

  Tags in Conflict, Theories, Exception

David Baker (10)

Birth:	21st December, 1931
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Composer, Professor

About

David Nathaniel Baker Jr. was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. He is an American composer at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington. He was educated at Indiana University, receiving both his Undergraduate and Masters in Music Education from that institution. A 1973 Pulitzer Prize nominee, Mr. Baker has been nominated for a Grammy Award, honored three times by Down Beat magazine.

Related Authors

• Stephen Sondheim
• Karl Amadeus Hartmann
• Tammin Sursok
• Marvin Hamlisch
• Lou Harrison
• Peter Warlock
• Richard Berry
• Ali Akbar Khan
• Andrew Lloyd Webber
• Jerry Hunt

Advertisement

Today's Anniversary - 15th January

Births

• 1623 - Algernon Sidney
• 1981 - Pitbull
• 1975 - Mary Pierce
• 1897 - Xu Zhimo
• 1902 - Nazim Hikmet

Deaths

• 1917 - William De Morgan
• 1983 - Meyer Lansky
• 1982 - Red Smith
• 1987 - Ray Bolger
• 1919 - Rosa Luxemburg