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That by listening to some music, by reading some books, by looking at paintings, and most important by hanging out with one another - by collaborating with one another and creating your own network - you can achieve something that is much better than what is out there.

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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 people who are interested in the enduring energy, achievements, spirit and creativity that exemplified our era.
David Amram
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 change.
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 of Modern Art, where we had hoped to do the readings.
David Amram
A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington.
David Amram
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 in Greenwich Village.
David Amram
I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last.
David Amram
That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want to be appreciated for what they have done.
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 there is a different way of approaching today's life and today's sometimes seeming hopelessness that can provide answers.
David Amram
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 and having a family, living in the country, leading an idyllic life.
David Amram
Even before he had one book published, Jack was one of those people you could feel was very special.
David Amram
There are a lot of wonderful things created in our culture that have been ignored that can speak to them.
David Amram
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 by the record industry, by the new rock and roll culture, and by the idea of not trusting anyone over thirty.
David Amram
The Upper Bohemia people wore tuxedos in an art gallery, and Lower Bohemia was all of us.
David Amram
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 at a church or a temple, where everyone was completely in tune with the sermon and what the whole event was about.
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 was there for him, and for our ability to blend the poetry and the music.
David Amram
Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.
David Amram
That by listening to some music, by reading some books, by looking at paintings, and most important by hanging out with one another - by collaborating with one another and creating your own network - you can achieve something that is much better than what is out there.
David Amram
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 the same time, all of which are gorgeous melodies, all being played simultaneously.
David Amram
Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot.
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, and literature.
David Amram
The atmosphere was wide open in those circles that we traveled in.
David Amram
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, and then you play something that compliments that, so you are thinking simultaneously and thinking ahead.
David Amram
Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture.
David Amram
That is the way a great master carpenter feels or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything people want to be appreciated for what they have done.
David Amram
There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth.
Peter Straub
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
William Ellery Channing
It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.
Carolyn Wells
I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.
Jim Harrison
I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.
Billy Joel
It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.
Alain de Botton
The proper study of mankind is books.
Aldous Huxley
I have written about 10 books, all just practical encouragement for moms.
Lisa Whelchel
Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature.
Phillip Noyce
Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
Louisa May Alcott
You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.
Slavoj Zizek
Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist.
Moshe Dayan
As I have studied the Bible and the Book of Mormon, I have come to know through the power of the Spirit of God, that these books contain the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Clayton Christensen
There are some friends you don't meet for twenty years and when you meet them again it's as if no twenty years has happened - you're lucky when that happens. I feel the same about books.
Norman MacCaig
Then I found books that were written much later, as late as 15 years ago. It was very superficial material, but enough to tell me that the genesis of this story was worth exploring.
Charles Guggenheim
To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Well, it was actually - I brought the idea of doing a documentary to HBO back in 2000, when there were some press reports sort of were bandied about that there were going to TV movies based on some of the books that were out.
Monica Lewinsky
In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey.
Jeanette Winterson
I get letters from readers who say that they have always hated reading, but somebody suggested one of my books, they actually finished the book and enjoyed it, and they're going on to read another book. I'm thrilled that they have figured out that reading is fun.
Caroline B. Cooney
I never buy magazines, I never even buy books.
Marc Newson
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
Susan Sontag
Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.
Ken Follet
Well see, I'm a good enough writer that not everybody in my books talks exactly like I do.
Robert Kirkman
So while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, it's also true that as a writer of books I want to have the whole range of human emotions.
Rick Moody