Brad Mehldau famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The very fine line between loneliness and solitude, reflection; being alone, always appealed to me when I was a kid.
-- Brad Mehldau

#Loneliness #Kids #Reflection
Romanticism implies nostalgia for damaged goods.
-- Brad Mehldau

#Music #Damaged Goods #Nostalgia
There's a pianist out of Boston who made a beautiful record for the Fresh Sound label called 'Sketch Book'; his name is Vardan Ovsepian
-- Brad Mehldau

#Beautiful #Book #Boston
I've always just tried to be who I am and be honest in terms of what I play. If that reaches a larger group of people, great. If it doesn't - if it remains obscure - that's okay as well.
-- Brad Mehldau

#Who I Am #Play #People
The music itself, I suppose, is the thing that will survive in my memory, happily.
-- Brad Mehldau

#Memories
I guess chemistry always changes when you play with someone else.
-- Brad Mehldau

#Play #Chemistry
I'm not much of a storyteller with words!
-- Brad Mehldau

#Storyteller
I'm happy to have the opportunity to record the records I want to - I'm very aware that that's a privilege.
-- Brad Mehldau

#Opportunity #Records #Want

Being human is the most terrible loneliness in the universe.
Maybe a first love exists to reaffirm the best parts of yourself, the choices you made when you didn't worry about the consequences. Maybe a first love exists to remind you to be brave in the moment, to stand up for your feelings, instead of shrinking back in the face of potential loneliness.
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing.
As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming.
I didn't grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre.
Reflection is the lamp of the heart. If it departs, the heart will have no light.
TV has taken reflection out of the human condition. People didn't use to have a ready answer for everything, whether they knew something about it or not. People think they have to have an answer for everything because the guys on TV have an answer for everything. But it's bullsh**t! Reflection is crucial.
Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us.
Imagine a multidimensiona l spider's web in the early morning covered with dew drops. And every dew drop contains the reflection of all the other dew drops. And, in each reflected dew drop, the reflections of all the other dew drops in that reflection. And so ad infinitum. That is the Buddhist conception of the universe in an image.

Brad Mehldau famous quotes

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