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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
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Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot.
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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.
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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.
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There are a lot of wonderful things created in our culture that have been ignored that can speak to them.
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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.
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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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A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington.
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture.
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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.
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The Upper Bohemia people wore tuxedos in an art gallery, and Lower Bohemia was all of us.
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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.
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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 for what they have done.
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Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.
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Even before he had one book published, Jack was one of those people you could feel was very special.
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