3 December 2020 Dave Brubeck That’s the beauty of music. You can take a theme from a Bach sacred chorale and improvise. It doesn’t make any difference where the theme comes from the treatment of it can be jazz.
3 December 2020 Dave Brubeck 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.
3 December 2020 Dave Brubeck 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.
3 December 2020 Dave Brubeck 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.
3 December 2020 Dave Brubeck I’m always hoping for the nights that are inspired where you almost have an out of body experience.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Dave Brubeck I played a lot of sports and it’s the plays in basketball that weren’t worked out that are the ones that are just fantastic that you remember. We don’t know the power that’s within our own bodies.
