#lay

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

#chance #create #created #dangerously #going

I played a lot of sports and it's the plays in basketball that weren't worked out that are the ones that are just fantastic that you remember. We don't know the power that's within our own bodies. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#bodies #fantastic #i #just #know

It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me. And also it's to me the greatest instrument. I shouldn't say that, but I believe that this is the only instrument I can really feel happy about playing. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#also #believe #feel #greatest #happy

Many people don't understand how disciplined you have to be to play jazz... And that is really the idea of democracy - freedom within the Constitution or discipline. You don't just get out there and do anything you want. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#constitution #democracy #discipline #disciplined #freedom

My own Brubeck Institute in California is turning out fantastic young jazz players, and I know great things will happen. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#fantastic #great #great things #happen #i

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

#discover #doing #done #elements #exhaust

I saw it as a challenge to play with Pat and we put hours and hours into it, usually on the bus. The trick was to find something that we both wanted to play within our different styles which would add up to being greater than the sum of its parts. ↗

— Bill Bruford

#being #both #bus #challenge #different

My comedy does not come from a place of deep cynicism, and I tend to play characters who are naive in some way. ↗

— Anna Faris

#come #comedy #cynicism #deep #does

I'd rather be running the game than playing it. ↗

— Steven Brust

#i #playing #rather #running #than

Ireland has a role to play in making the E.U. united and strong. ↗

— John Bruton

#making #play #role #strong #united