Dave Brubeck

Don’t be a perfectionist… leave that to the classical musicians.

You can be beyond yourself, better than your technique, better than most of your usual ideas.

It’s Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, you know. They got a musical mind together and uh, you can’t explain it.

I never wanted this kind of life that I’m still living.

Jazz stands for freedom.

Get out there and improvise and take chances and don’t be a perfectionist.

It’s all too easy to miss out on the important moments in life because you’re too busy staring at your phone.

I have a theory that the best advertisements come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive.

I avoid clients for whom advertising is only a marginal factor in their marketing mix. They have an awkward tendency to raid their advertising appropriations whenever they need cash for other purposes.

As betting at the race ring adds neither strength nor speed to the horse, so the exchange of shares in the stock market adds no capital to business, no increase in the production and no purchasing power to the market.

The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.

You can’t do this! We have an arrangement! We have a contract!

Once you have a product that you are happy with, you the need to centralize things to continue growth.

Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other person will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

Efficient industry is the sole key to prosperity.

Our aim is to compete with any luxury brand. Candy & Candy will be a luxury brand, recognised in Rodeo Drive, New York, Dubai, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tokyo and London. Those are the major centres in the world. It will be synonymous with the design of homes, houses, flats, yachts, aircraft and retail.

Depressions aren’t acts of God; like wars, they are the work of a small group of men who profit by them.

I must have had a dozen jobs and I got fired from all of them.

The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything.

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.

I suspect that many corporations have begun to understand that they have an important role to play in the lives of their communities, and that allocating funds to support local groups helps them discharge that function and also burnish their image.