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I have a home in Arizona. I go a couple months a year, but basically Chicago is my home. ↗

— Dennis Farina

#basically #chicago #couple #go #home

So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter. ↗

— Gordon W. Allport

#hopeless #laughter #life #many #other

I learned a long time ago: You're in the entertainment business. You're not in the reality business. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other. ↗

— Dennis Farina

#absolutely nothing #ago #business #entertainment #entertainment business

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

One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us. ↗

— Tammy Bruce

#biggest #biggest problems #bring #failure #feminist

When you hear Bach or Mozart, you hear perfection. Remember that Bach, Mozart and Beethoven were great improvisers. I can hear that in their music. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#beethoven #great #hear #i #i can

I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art. ↗

— Balthus

#art #confide #i #like #people

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

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#everyone #genius #living #process #them