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.

Smithsonian Folkways. under the auspices of The Paso Digital Film Festival. "Days Like These".

David Amram (born November 17 1930) is an American composer conductor multi-instrumentalist and author. Monk Hunter S. In the early 1950s he was encouraged to pursue his unique path by mentors Charlie Parker Thelonious Monk the New York Philharmonic's conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos Miles Davis Aaron Copland Gunther Schuller and visual artists Jackson Pollock Joan Mitchell Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline.