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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

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

— Dave Brubeck

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

— Tammy Bruce

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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

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

— Balthus

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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

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

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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The real duties of an ambassador are to enter into or follow negotiations between his own government and that of the country to which he is accredited. ↗

— David Bruce

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I love England and the historical aspect of it. ↗

— Dennis Farina

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There's always a great deal of business to be transacted in one's office. There are always visitors it seems to me, an unending stream of them, who come with letters of recommendation, or come actually on substantive business. ↗

— David Bruce

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