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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 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. – 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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Im 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

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I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries. – Charley Pride

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My dad was born in Chicago in 1908… his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children – in the backroom all together – and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business. – Bob Balaban

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Being a father to my family and a husband is to me much more important than what I did in the business. – Tom Bosley

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As much as I transferred my mother to Elizabeth Shore of The Black Dahlia, as much as her dad mutated into an obsession with crime in general, well, I have thought about other things throughout the years. – James Ellroy

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