Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but... →
Robert Browning
The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!
I was always very aware of drummers. My oldest brother Henry was a drummer, and he drummed on everything in the house from the kitchen sink to... →
Dave Brubeck
I'm 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.
When you hear Bach or Mozart, you hear perfection. Remember that Bach, Mozart and Beethoven were great improvisers. I can hear that in their music.
I got a poster from Columbia Records, and there's Miles Davis, Charlie Mingus, Ellington, Count Basie - everybody in that poster has died... →
Concord, California was a great place to grow up.
My own Brubeck Institute in California is turning out fantastic young jazz players, and I know great things will happen.
There's always a great deal of business to be transacted in one's office. There are always visitors it seems to me, an unending stream of... →
David K. E. Bruce
I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all.
Jack Bruce