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My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his

My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned four cattle that he gave to me when I graduated from grammar school, from the eighth grade. And those cows multiplied, and he kept track of them for years for me. And that was my herd. – Dave Brubeck

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Jazz stands for freedom. Its supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and dont be a perfectionist – leave that to the classical musicians. – Dave Brubeck

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I played a lot of sports and its the plays in basketball that werent worked out that are the ones that are just fantastic that you remember. We dont know the power thats within our own bodies. – Dave Brubeck

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Thats the beauty of music. You can take a theme from a Bach sacred chorale and improvise. It doesnt make any difference where the theme comes from the treatment of it can be jazz. – Dave Brubeck

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My dads an architect and my mom owned a French bakery for twelve years. – Alison Lohman

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I liked a lot of the things other people liked – Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Van Halen, AC/DC – but if I compared it to my dads music, there just seemed to be elements missing. – Dweezil Zappa

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My dads supportive of all my endeavors. – Georgia Jagger

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My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate, depressing, sad places run by the mob. The only gay people hed met when I came out to him were corpses. – Dan Savage

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