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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.

David Amram

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David Amram
Age: 93
Born: 1930
Born: November 17
Autobiographer
Composer
Conductor
Film Score Composer
Horn Player
Jazz Musician
Lyricist
Singer-Songwriter
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
David Werner Amram
David Werner Amram III
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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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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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Today's trend ends up in tomorrow's landfill.
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The atmosphere was wide open in those circles that we traveled in.
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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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Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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