Complexity can be a trap. You can have a ball developing a phrase, inverting it, playing it in different keys and times and all. But it's really more introspective than communicative. Like a crossword puzzle compared to a poem. |
I felt a responsibility to all other newsletter publishers. |
I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted it to sound like a dry martini. |
I was overlooked long before anyone knew who I was. |
I would also like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age. |
The qualities in music I considered most important -- and still do -- were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity, |
We used to get on planes, and they'd ask who we were, and we'd say, 'The Dave Brubeck Quartet', and they'd say, 'Who?' In later years they'd say, 'Oh', which amounts to the same thing. |
Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught. |