David Amram Quotes

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• That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want to be appreciated…
• Today's trend ends up in tomorrow's landfill.
• Morley is one of the outstanding voices of her generation, as a singer, songwriter and bandleader she's in a class of her own, transcends all…
• Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot.
• The first time I heard Ron Whitehead read I felt what I imagine those who heard Abraham Lincoln deliver The Gettysburg Address felt.
• In a jazz atmosphere, the audience members were so quiet and respectful of the musicians that you felt you were almost part of a meeting…
• I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature.
• When today's generation reads Jack's books or they listen to the music created by some of us, I believe that they see there is a…
• That by listening to some music, by reading some books, by looking at paintings, and most important by hanging out with one another - by…
• We met with the poet Frank O'Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum of Modern Art,…
• The atmosphere was wide open in those circles that we traveled in.
• In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing,…
• In symphonic music, when you are conducting, you do the same thing. You are feeling the whole orchestra, thinking ahead so you can prepare for…
• A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington.
• I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last.
• When you are accompanying someone, you are listening to them the way you listen to a Bach Chorale, where four parts are going on at…
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture.
• Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.
• Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful portraits that may still hang…
• The idea of the peace movement and of people who spent their entire lives trying to have a more egalitarian, just society, suddenly became swamped…

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