Dave Brubeck Quotes
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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Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
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The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.
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I listen to 'deep dish house'.
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I was a home-schooled kid, living in the forest, and I didn't even have cable. I'm serious.
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I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.
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Open-minded tech tinkerers may still prefer traditional PCs for work because they allow much more customization than, say, an iPad.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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I have an insatiable palate. I'll try anything once, with an open mind. However, there is a special place in my heart for Kraft Macaroni & Cheese. Don't get me wrong, I've sampled specialty Mac & Cheese all over the world, but nothing competes with the stuff I grew up on.
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I was not really as good as I should have been.
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It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.
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Life is just a set of experiences. As long as there are new experiences for me in a corporate job, I don't think I have to be an entrepreneur.
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God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.
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Exercise is roughly equivalent to an oil lube and a filter for a car. You don't have to do it, but when you do, it makes the car run a lot better.
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I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.
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It was kind of exciting being on the radio. Not everybody was on the radio.
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Inequalities are permissible when they maximize, or at least all contribute to, the long term expectations of the least fortunate group in society.
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Kids shouldn't see all the violence they do these days. But the industry just doesn't care.
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I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.
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Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
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Art is not politics. The glory of the novel is that in its essence, it is a democratic form, because it treats individuals as worthy of scrutiny. That alone is a kind of political act. A good novel about a tea party of rich women can be just as galvanizing and important to the soul as War and Peace, so I think it's not really the job of artists to do anything. They can have their opinions as private citizens, but they must continue making their art.
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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.
