Quote by Dave Brubeck
Thats the beauty of music. You can take a theme from a Bach sacred

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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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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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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Form follows beauty. – Oscar Niemeyer

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We live in a state with a wonderful climate and plenty of natural beauty, from the shores of Cumberland Island to the Chattahoochee River to the Blue Ridge Mountains. – Roy Barnes

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When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of beauty and I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences. – Frederick Sanger

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Truth is, I cut my hair for freedom, not for beauty. – Chrisette Michele

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I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us. – Kinky Friedman

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That is what I did with Jack, and thats why he liked to do the readings with me because he knew I was there for him, and for our ability to blend the poetry and the music. – David Amram

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In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves. – Bernard Baruch

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To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves. – Simone Weil

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