All David Amram Quotes
- That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want to be appreciated… Anyone
- Today's trend ends up in tomorrow's landfill. Ends
- 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… All
- Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot. Esquire
- The first time I heard Ron Whitehead read I felt what I imagine those who heard Abraham Lincoln deliver The Gettysburg Address felt. Abraham
- 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… Almost Part
- 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. Art
- 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… Answers
- That by listening to some music, by reading some books, by looking at paintings, and most important by hanging out with one another - by… Achieve
- 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,… Afterlife
- The atmosphere was wide open in those circles that we traveled in. Atmosphere
- 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,… Ahead
- 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… Ahead
- A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington. David
- I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last. Built
- 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… Accompanying
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture. Artist
- Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics. Allen
- 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… Became
- 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… Anyone
- I was part of it, and I am still part of it today in terms of what it means to a whole new generation of… Achievements
- We had common interests in the beauty of the French language. We both had a tremendous love of jazz. We shared dreams of getting married… Beauty
- Even before he had one book published, Jack was one of those people you could feel was very special. Book
- The Upper Bohemia people wore tuxedos in an art gallery, and Lower Bohemia was all of us. All
- There are a lot of wonderful things created in our culture that have been ignored that can speak to them. Been