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"I prefer no one to teach me. I prefer to swing on my own."
-- Dave Brubeck

"Damn it, when I'm bombastic, I have my reasons. I want to be bombastic: take it or leave it."
-- Dave Brubeck

"It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me."
-- Dave Brubeck

"And there is a time where you can be beyond yourself. You can be better than your technique. You can be better than most of your usual ideas. And this is a whole other category that you can get into."
-- Dave Brubeck

"There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before."
-- Dave Brubeck


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