Dave Brubeck Quotes About Jazz

Quotes about: Jazz

• 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.

• 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.

  Dave Brubeck

  Music, Mistake, Order

  FaceBook post by Dave Brubeck from Aug 14, 2012

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

  Dave Brubeck

  Piano Music, Orchestra, Jazz

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

  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

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

  Dave Brubeck

  Swings, Jazz, Teach

• 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!

  Dave Brubeck

  Thinking, Names, Dukes

• 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

  Ideas, Technique, Usual

• Jazz is about freedom within discipline.

  Dave Brubeck

  Discipline, Jazz

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

• 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

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

  Dave Brubeck

  Music, Skin Color, Soul

• Jazz stands for freedom.

  Dave Brubeck

  Jazz

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

  Dave Brubeck

  Musician, Jazz, Perfectionist

• 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

• 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

• Most of the international acceptance of jazz education can be traced to the University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, and the wonderful program they inaugurated.

  Dave Brubeck

  Acceptance, Texas, Jazz

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

  Dave Brubeck

  Cowboy, Way, Jazz

• 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

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

• My own Brubeck Institute in California is turning out fantastic young jazz players, and I know great things will happen.

  Dave Brubeck

  Player, California, Jazz

• 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

• The use of rock, folk, or pop music serves a purpose. It gets people into the church. But an inexperienced guitar player who doesn't have much to say, for example, can make me wish to leave the church immediately, whereas one great jazz or classical guitarist can confirm that I will have a spiritual experience in the church.

  Dave Brubeck

  Spiritual, Player, People

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

• Jazz isn't dead yet. It's the underpinning of everything in this country. Whether it's a Broadway show, or fusion, or right on through classical music, if it's coming out of the U.S., it's not going to survive unless it's got some jazz influence.

  Dave Brubeck

  Country, Fusion, Broadway

• 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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