#la

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

— David Amram

#duke #duke ellington #ellington #few #hear

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

#authority #blake #classic #ginsberg #had

I never told her the other story, in which she stars, in which she is always the heroine – a romanticized story full of cliché images in which I am telling her all the things there has not been enough time for, in which we are doing all the things there has not been time for… ↗

— Penelope Lively

#relationship

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

#another #better #books #collaborating #creating

I think that ballads are always something where I can really become one with the audiance. ↗

— Namie Amuro

#ballads #become #i #i can #i think

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

#both #common #common interests #country #dreams

If I don't think about anything, and start with a clean slate, in terms of what I have to do, a lot of different ideas come up, and I can think about things more openly. ↗

— Namie Amuro

#anything #clean #come #different #i

For the most part, I don't care about what everyone else is doing, or what is popular. ↗

— Namie Amuro

#care #doing #else #everyone #i

I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish. ↗

— Trey Anastasio

#context #dreamed #everything #finish #hear

I cannot spend my entire life going around the country playing 'You Enjoy Myself '. ↗

— Trey Anastasio

#cannot #country #enjoy #entire #entire life