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I had the first integrated Army band in World War II.
— Dave Brubeck
My own Brubeck Institute in California is turning out fantastic young jazz players, and I know great things will happen.
— Dave Brubeck
Once when asked how I would like to be remembered, I answered, "As someone who opened doors.
— Dave Brubeck
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.
— Dave Brubeck
He wished he were home in Charleston, listening to the Dave Brubeck Quartet on the stereo and reading Bruce Catton.
— Dan Simmons
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.
— Dave Brubeck
Every individual should be expressing themselves, whether a politician or a minister or a policeman.
— Dave Brubeck
What I want to happen is to be really creative, and to play something new in the improvisations, every time.
— Dave Brubeck
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
Jazz stands for freedom.
— Dave Brubeck
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
As a kid, I used to go see all the jazz players, Oscar Peterson, Stan Kenton, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespe.
— Jim Coleman
We don't know the power that's within our own bodies.
— Dave Brubeck
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
I never wanted this kind of life that Im still living.
— Dave Brubeck
When things are going well, I hate to quit.
— Dave Brubeck
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.
— Dave Brubeck
The secret of a great melody is a secret.
— Dave Brubeck
Concord, California was a great place to grow up.
— Dave Brubeck
I'm always hoping for the nights that are inspired where you almost have an out of body experience.
— Dave Brubeck
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
The first choral music I remember hearing was Handel's 'Messiah' when the Mormon Tabernacle Choir broadcast it over the radio.
— Dave Brubeck
You have to be taught to hate.
— Dave Brubeck
Your mother's heartbeat is the first sound you ever hear and your own heartbeat is the last.
— Dave Brubeck
Brubeck, for instance, is not careless. He's a studied guy. And even if his picture ends up on the back cover of Life, he's still a studious guy.
— Eddie Condon
Damn it, when I'm bombastic, I have my reasons. I want to be bombastic-take it or leave it.
— Dave Brubeck
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.
— Dave Brubeck
I prefer no one to teach me. I prefer to swing on my own.
— Dave Brubeck