Bob Brookmeyer famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

A Jazz man should be saying what he feels: humor, sadness, joy... all the things that humans have.
-- Bob Brookmeyer

#Music #Sadness #Men
This is positively not an album to play while you do a doctorate thesis on "Bergson, Webern and Charles the Vicious, Paradox or Ambiguity?"
-- Bob Brookmeyer

#Music #Play #Albums
Once in a while, a teacher gets rewarded with a brilliant student. My two years with Dan Szabo at the New England Conservatory were indeed a gift -- he is a pianist with unlimited potential and a composer that makes my heart sing. I deeply feel that he is an important musician for the coming years.
-- Bob Brookmeyer

#Teacher #Heart #Years
A pianist with skill, touch, musicality and a gift for making songs from songs. Plus, he can swing! Give a listen
-- Bob Brookmeyer

#Song #Swings #Skills
Fred Sturm has proven to be a great asset to the musical world as a teacher, composer and author. His gifts have enriched the musical life of all the people who have been fortunate enough to share his wisdom and musicality.
-- Bob Brookmeyer

#Teacher #People #Musical

Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.
I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth.
I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.
When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.
Our sadness wonâ€™t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we see before us, melancholy at an awareness of how seldom we are sufficiently blessed to encounter anything of its kind. The flawless object throws into perspective the mediocrity that surrounds it. We are reminded of the way we would wish things always to be and of how incomplete our lives remain.
Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain. Sexual arousal is no more than a flow of chemicals to certain nerve endings. Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum. In short, the body is a machine, subject to the same laws of electricity and mechanics as an electron or clock.
I have as much rage as you have, I have as much pain as you do, I've lived as much hell as you have, and I've kept mine bubbling under for you.
I'm consumed by the chill of solitary.
A devotee should be fixed in the conclusion that, the spiritual master cannot be subject to criticism and should never be considered equal to a common man.
The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.

Bob Brookmeyer famous quotes

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