Dave Brubeck

No person in their right mind would want to put their family through what I’ve had to put my family through.

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.

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

Kinship doesn’t come from skin color. It’s in your soul and your mind.

Damn it, when I’m bombastic, I have my reasons. I want to be bombastic: take it or leave it.

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.

Boredom: the desire for desires.

History is more or less bunk.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

The ‘B’ stands for whatever, depending on the day…beautiful or bully

I ask you to go back and read them over again, and this time answer “Self-acceptance was the foundation of the happiest time in your life and it was the engine that powered the train.

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

Suppression of progress plays into the hands of the social enemy. Every advance in social justice establishes the nation.

People will try to fix world but world will fix people.

We do not know who we are until we see what we can do.

Sailing round the world in a dirty gondola oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.

Don’t ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

All this is only for the mice and myself to admire!

Little difficulties are made to swell until they fill our horizon while the real big blessings of life are dwindled down to nothing.