Jazz Stands For Freedom.

The First Choral Music I Remember Hearing Was Handel's 'messiah' When The Mormon Tabernacle Choir Broadcast It Over The Radio.

Most Of The International Acceptance Of Jazz Education Can Be Traced To The University Of North Texas, Denton, Texas, And The Wonderful Program They Inaugurated.

Kinship Doesn't Come From Skin Color. It's In Your Soul And Your Mind.

So Often People Will Say That I Converted To The Catholic Religion. This Is False. Although I Was Raised As A Protestant, I Was Never Baptized And Had Never Been A Member Of Any Church. I Joined The Roman Catholic Church After I Had Written My Mass To Hope!during The Night I Dreamt The Entire Lord's Prayer With Chorus And Orchestra. I Jumped Out Of Bed And Wrote Down What I Had Heard As Accurately As I Could Remember. Because Of This Event I Decided That I Might As Well Join The Catholic Church Because Someone Somewhere Was Pulling Me Toward That End.

My Mother Elizabeth Ivey Brubeck Was A Pianist Who Studied With Dame Myra Hess And Tobias Matthey. As A Child In California I Used To Listen To Her Play Chopin.