I got a poster from Columbia Records, and there's Miles Davis, Charlie Mingus, Ellington, Count Basie - everybody in that poster has died, I'm the only one left. And great players like Paul Desmond and Gerry Mulligan, it's hard to believe they're gone because we were all so close. But I believe in the future and the tradition will go on.
Dave BrubeckJazz is about the only form of art existing today in which there is freedom of the individual without the loss of group contact.
Dave BrubeckMy own Brubeck Institute in California is turning out fantastic young jazz players, and I know great things will happen.
Dave Brubeck