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

Dave Brubeck on Experience

More quotes about Experience

  • "Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards."

    Soren Kierkegaard on Experience

  • "The only source of knowledge is experience."

    Albert Einstein on Experience

  • "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn."

    C. S. Lewis on Experience

  • "Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."

    Oscar Wilde on Experience

  • "A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."

    Mark Twain on Experience

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."

  • "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."

  • "Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians."

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