37 Quotes by David Amram

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

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.

Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.

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

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

I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last.

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

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

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