Dave Brubeck Quotes (13 Quotes)

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.

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.

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.

Take Five. There's a certain piece that if we don't play, we're in trouble.

And it still produces, too. The Stockton Symphony is top-notch in my book, and there's some great students coming to the institute. Joe Gilman (the American River College music professor who also teaches at the institute) is one of the most talented pianists I've ever heard. That praise doesn't do him justice,

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

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

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

We immediately gelled and we both were hearing things together and feeling the beat together, ... We both had a wonderful ball ... it was a fun, enjoyable musical experience.

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

Dave Brubeck and Marian McPartland, two masters of the jazz piano, Friday. It's always an event, when she's there, ... She's a wonderful pianist.

It has taken me almost 60 years finally to compose something I wanted to write when I was a young soldier in Europe.

On my way out here, I was writing all the way on the plane, ... and as soon as I got to San Diego, I arranged with the symphony to find an old practice room in their basement. It's better than two-thirds completed. I'd say four-fifths.