David Amram

When today's generation reads Jack's books or they listen to the music created by some of us, I believe that they see…

— David Amram

That by listening to some music, by reading some books, by looking at paintings, and most important by hanging out with one…

— David Amram

Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot.

— David Amram

In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the…

— David Amram

In symphonic music, when you are conducting, you do the same thing. You are feeling the whole orchestra, thinking ahead so you…

— David Amram

We had common interests in the beauty of the French language. We both had a tremendous love of jazz. We shared dreams…

— David Amram

Morley is one of the outstanding voices of her generation, as a singer, songwriter and bandleader she's in a class of her…

— David Amram

That is what I did with Jack, and that's why he liked to do the readings with me because he knew I…

— David Amram

When you are accompanying someone, you are listening to them the way you listen to a Bach Chorale, where four parts are…

— David Amram

Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture.

— David Amram

Today's trend ends up in tomorrow's landfill.

— David Amram

I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music,…

— David Amram

Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful portraits that…

— David Amram

Even before he had one book published, Jack was one of those people you could feel was very special.

— David Amram

In a jazz atmosphere, the audience members were so quiet and respectful of the musicians that you felt you were almost part…

— David Amram

We met with the poet Frank O'Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum…

— David Amram

The atmosphere was wide open in those circles that we traveled in.

— David Amram

The idea of the peace movement and of people who spent their entire lives trying to have a more egalitarian, just society,…

— David Amram

That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want…

— David Amram

The first time I heard Ron Whitehead read I felt what I imagine those who heard Abraham Lincoln deliver The Gettysburg Address…

— David Amram

There are a lot of wonderful things created in our culture that have been ignored that can speak to them.

— David Amram

I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last.

— David Amram

The Upper Bohemia people wore tuxedos in an art gallery, and Lower Bohemia was all of us.

— David Amram

I was part of it, and I am still part of it today in terms of what it means to a whole…

— David Amram

A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington.

— David Amram