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I have more energy at the end than I do at the beginning. You can be so beat up that you can scarcely walk on stage but when you get to the piano the excitement kicks in, you forget about being tired. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#beat #beginning #being #end #energy

I used to take my mother to Yosemite. When I turned 14, I got my driver's license, and that's where she'd want to go, so I'd go take her there for two weeks. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#go #got #her #i #license

As I get older, I just prefer to knit. ↗

— Tracey Ullman

#get #i #just #knit #older

I'm still that little girl who lisped and sat in the back of the car and threw vegetables at the back of her head when we drove home from the market. That never goes. ↗

— Tracey Ullman

#car #drove #girl #goes #head

Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#classical #freedom #get #improvise #jazz

What I want to happen is to be really creative, and to play something new in the improvisations, every time. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#every #every time #happen #i #new

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

#composer #favorite #fifth #find #his

I've always gotten a positive reaction to doing African-American characters. ↗

— Tracey Ullman

#always #characters #doing #gotten #i

I used to dress up and impersonate our next-door neighbor, Miss Cox. She wore rubber boots, a wool hat, and her nose always dripped. ↗

— Tracey Ullman

#boots #cox #dress #hat #her

I think, like many others, I realized that only the massive introduction of American support in one form or another, could possibly bring about a rehabilitation of the economies of those countries within a reasonable time. ↗

— David Bruce

#american #another #bring #could #countries