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"I got a poster from Columbia Records, and there's Miles Davis, Charlie Mingus, Ellington, Count Basie - everybody in that poster has died, I'm the only one left. And great players like Paul Desmond and Gerry Mulligan, it's hard to believe they're gone because we were all so close. But I believe in the future and the tradition will go on."

Dave Brubeck on Future

More quotes about Future

  • "The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."

    Winston Churchill on Future

  • "Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future."

    Oscar Wilde on Future

  • "Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."

    Steve Jobs on Future

  • "I never think of the future - it comes soon enough."

    Albert Einstein on Future

  • "It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."

    William Shakespeare on Future

More quotes by Dave Brubeck

  • "That's the beauty of music. You can take a theme from a Bach sacred chorale and improvise. It doesn't make any difference where the theme comes from the treatment of it can be jazz."

  • "My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned four cattle that he gave to me when I graduated from grammar school, from the eighth grade. And those cows multiplied, and he kept track of them for years for me. And that was my herd."

  • "I'm always hoping for the nights that are inspired where you almost have an out of body experience."

  • "Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed to represent freedom, democracy and the United States."

  • "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."

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