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When I was first aware that I couldn't read music I didn't know I couldn't read because I could play the music that was in front of me.

~Dave Brubeck

Topics: Aware Because Could First Front Know Me Music Play Read

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When I was 20, Shostakovich was my favorite composer. I still find his Fifth Symphony wonderful, with its outstanding themes and rhythms. That's the piece that made me want to be a classical composer.

~Dave Brubeck

Topics: Classical Composer Favorite Fifth Find His Made Me Outstanding Piece Rhythms Still Symphony Themes Want Wonderful

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My mother Elizabeth Ivey Brubeck was a pianist who studied with Dame Myra Hess and Tobias Matthey. As a child in California I used to listen to her play Chopin.

~Dave Brubeck

Topics: California Child Chopin Dame Elizabeth Her Listen Mother Pianist Play Studied Used Who

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After the Second World War, I returned to California to study composition with Darius Milhaud, who wrote wonderful works like 'Le Boeuf sur le Toit' and 'La Cretion du Monde.' I especially enjoy his work for two pianos, 'Scaramouche.'

~Dave Brubeck

Topics: After California Composition Enjoy His La Like Pianos Returned Second Second World War Study Two War Who Wonderful Work Works World World War World War I Wrote

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The first choral music I remember hearing was Handel's 'Messiah' when the Mormon Tabernacle Choir broadcast it over the radio.

~Dave Brubeck

Topics: Broadcast Choir First Hearing Messiah Mormon Music Over Radio Remember I Remember

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That's the beauty of music. You can take a theme from a Bach sacred chorale and improvise. It doesn't make any difference where the theme comes from; the treatment of it can be jazz.

~Dave Brubeck

Topics: Any Bach Beauty Difference Improvise Jazz Make Music Sacred Take Theme Treatment Where You

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When you start out with goals - mine were to play polytonally and polyrhythmically - you never exhaust that. I started doing that in the 1940s. It's still a challenge to discover what can be done with just those two elements.

~Dave Brubeck

Topics: Challenge Discover Doing Done Elements Exhaust Goals Just Mine Never Out Play Start Started Still Those Two Were You 1940S

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Jazz isn't dead yet. It's the underpinning of everything in this country. Whether it's a Broadway show, or fusion, or right on through classical music, if it's coming out of the U.S., it's not going to survive unless it's got some jazz influence.

~Dave Brubeck

Topics: Broadway Broadway Show Classical Classical Music Coming Country Dead Everything Fusion Going Got Influence Jazz Music Out Right Show Some Survive Through To Survive Unless Whether

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I started growing up in a hurry and taking a lot of the philosophy I'd heard from church as a kid a lot more seriously - especially the Ten Commandments - and wondering how 'Thou shalt not kill' could be so absolutely ignored. It took me until I was in my 40s to write what I was thinking as a young soldier.

~Dave Brubeck

Topics: Absolutely Church Commandments Could Growing Growing Up Heard How Hurry Ignored Kid Lot Me More Philosophy Seriously Shalt Soldier Started Taking Ten Ten Commandments Thinking Thou Took Until Up Wondering Write Young

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If I told you all the people that have secretly told me I've influenced them, you'd never believe it, and you'll never see it in print, either.

~Dave Brubeck

Topics: Believe Either In Print Influenced Me Never People Print Secretly See Them You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: December 6th, 1920

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