Dave Brubeck Quotes

When I was 20, Shostakovich was my favorite composer. I still find his Fifth Symphony wonderful, with its outstanding themes and rhythms. That's the piece that made me want to be a classical composer.

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• I've traveled all the way around the world; I've been to over 95 countries, so I love ethnic food, different types of cuisine.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • World
  • Food
  • Countries

• I don't think of anyone as a 'groupie.' People who connect with my music are just inspiring and amazing.

  

  Banks
  • People
  • Music
  • Amazing

• When France was the only reference for chefs to learn, you could go everywhere in the world, and they would copy dishes directly because they didn't have much expanded imagination or technique or knowledge.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • World
  • Knowledge
  • Imagination

• I'm a total people pleaser.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • People
  • Total
  • Pleaser

• There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Done
  • You
  • Thing

• The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Power
  • Nature
  • Man

• There is no doubt in the sanctity of Mecca, but a donkey won't become a Hajj pilgrim by just going through the motions.

  

  Rahman Baba
  • Doubt
  • Become
  • Donkey

• Chile's mines are very dangerous; the country has a lot of earthquakes.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Country
  • Dangerous
  • Very

• To tell her that I joined the parachute club was too hard for me. I didn't want to trouble her; besides, I was not completely sure about the success of my new adventure.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Success
  • Trouble
  • Adventure

• That's the way blacks have been encouraged to think: that we got to stick together. You've got a situation today where if a black person says he thinks O.J. Simpson's guilty, other blacks will cut their eyes at him and say, 'You ought to go somewhere and sit down and shut up.'

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Up
  • Together
  • Today

• I have to be socially aware; I feel like that's my job.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Job
  • Like
  • Feel

• When I'm not working, I like to play golf.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Play
  • Golf
  • Working

• It is a changing world because of the newcomers who keep arriving and who leave us behind. Trying to keep pace with them is doomed to inglorious failure, especially as the pace has quickened so much.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • World
  • Trying
  • Failure

• I go to Wal-Mart all the time. The one in my hometown of Hendersonville, Tenn., is open 24 hours, so I go there a lot to buy DVDs and stuff like that.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Open
  • Hometown

• Think back to the early rock n' roll records, and the average record length in the '50s - and well into the '60s - was two and a half minutes. It's very hard to put that much songwriting into two and a half minutes.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Think
  • Rock
  • Early

• And that impulse to make the world better, to push back on those who try to make it worse, that’s something that your generation has to hold on to. And you have to remember, it’s never easy; there are no days off. But if there’s one thing that I know from my own life, it’s that with hard work and with hope, change is always within our reach.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• Some people say a front-engine car handles best. Some people say a rear-engine car handles best. I say a rented car handles best.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Car

• There came a point when if a conspiracy was that powerful and subtle it became pointless to worry about it.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Powerful
  • Worry

• You definitely have to play real games and, through trial and error, get a feel for the game.

  

  Chris Wallace
  • Real
  • Game
  • Play

• I'm a perfectionist, so it's hard for me to just accept that that I can't keep working until it's perfected. But I'm learning, I'm growing as a human in that way.

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • Growing
  • Learning

• The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • May
  • Science

• In a strange way, I don't have a job, so I have a lot of time on my hands. When I do work, it might be very concentrated, and it might be months where you're not really doing anything except maybe playing the banjo or writing something. You know, there's a lot of time in the day if you're not working 9 to 5.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Writing
  • Hands
  • Jobs

• When I was 20, Shostakovich was my favorite composer. I still find his Fifth Symphony wonderful, with its outstanding themes and rhythms. That's the piece that made me want to be a classical composer.

  

  Dave Brubeck