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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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