Your mother’s heartbeat is the first sound you ever hear and your own heartbeat is the last.
Dave BrubeckDuke Ellington, Art Tatum, and many other great jazz musicians objected to their music being called jazz. While the outside world may want to put a label on it, those who create it think of it just as music, and tend not to classify it.
Dave BrubeckMost of the international acceptance of jazz education can be traced to the University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, and the wonderful program they inaugurated.
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 BrubeckThe use of rock, folk, or pop music serves a purpose. It gets people into the church. But an inexperienced guitar player who doesn't have much to say, for example, can make me wish to leave the church immediately, whereas one great jazz or classical guitarist can confirm that I will have a spiritual experience in the church.
Dave Brubeck