#ld

I had the first integrated Army band in World War II. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#band #first #had #i #ii

My mother Elizabeth Ivey Brubeck was a pianist who studied with Dame Myra Hess and Tobias Matthey. As a child in California I used to listen to her play Chopin. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#child #chopin #dame #elizabeth #her

If I gave a damn what other people think of me, I would be more like other people. ↗

— Craig Bruce

#gave #i #like #me #more

The entire universe is working against me. I can't believe the entire universe could be that foolish! ↗

— Craig Bruce

#believe #could #entire #entire universe #foolish

The only people I've ever heard saying that disagreeing with Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld is un-American or treasonous are people who disagree with Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld. ↗

— Craig Bruce

#cheney #disagree #disagreeing #ever #heard

The world is real. Consciousness is the illusion. ↗

— Craig Bruce

#illusion #real #world

I didn't want to wait around for some business entity to come around and give me money and tell me what to do. We just started releasing records as best we could. ↗

— Greg Ginn

#best #business #come #could #entity

The "what should be" never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no "what should be," there is only what is. ↗

— Lenny Bruce

#exist #keep #live #never #only

I had business experience. I had made my living designing and building electronic equipment. Basic business was not new to me, but the music business was completely new to me. I knew nothing about distribution, or any of those things. ↗

— Greg Ginn

#any #basic #building #business #completely

I think that musicians should never forget about the intimacy of bringing two people together, and the aesthetic transference where you're almost vicariously involved in a romance between other people. ↗

— Joe Williams

#aesthetic #almost #between #bringing #forget