Biography | Author’s Book |
Name: Dave Brubeck | Find on Amazon India: Link |
Nationality: American | Find on Amazon: Link |
Profession: Musician | |
Born: 06-Dec-1920 | |
We don’t know the power that’s within our own bodies.
There’s a way of playing safe, there’s a way of using tricks and there’s the way I like to play which is dangerously where you’re going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven’t created before.
It’s like a whole orchestra, the piano for me.
I’m beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.
I’m always hoping for the nights that are inspired where you almost have an out of body experience.
I had the first integrated Army band in World War II.
And there is a time where you can be beyond yourself. You can be better than your technique. You can be better than most of your usual ideas. And this is a whole other category that you can get into.