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

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

Once when asked how I would like to be remembered, I answered, "As someone who opened doors.

When I was first aware that I couldn't read music I didn't know I couldn't read because I could play the music that was in front of me.

If I told you all the people that have secretly told me I've influenced them, you'd never believe it, and you'll never see it in print, either.

Concord, California was a great place to grow up.

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.

Jazz stands for freedom.

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.

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

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

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.

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

I wanted to be like my father, who was a cattle man and a rodeo roper. And that was - he was my hero, and I wanted to be more like him.

The secret of a great melody is a secret.

Every individual should be expressing themselves, whether a politician or a minister or a policeman.

What I want to happen is to be really creative, and to play something new in the improvisations, every time.

Jazz is about the only form of art existing today in which there is freedom of the individual without the loss of group contact.

The first choral music I remember hearing was Handel's 'Messiah' when the Mormon Tabernacle Choir broadcast it over the radio.

You have to be taught to hate.

Your mother's heartbeat is the first sound you ever hear and your own heartbeat is the last.

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

You could play probably a span of 50 years of me playing St. Louis Blues, and most of the time it will be different every time.

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

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

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

When things are going well, I hate to quit.