David Amram Quotes
Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot.
Quotes to Explore
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.
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Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?
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I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up.
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I was definitely a Daddy's boy.
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I don't compose, actually. I just record. I'm the opposite of a composer in my way of working. I'm more instinctive.
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I sang the songs in 'The Doors'.
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A lot of the scripts I read and the characters I get are 'the girl' in romantic films, and I don't know how comfortable I am, or the world is, with me being that.
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I think, you know, people think of the city of New Orleans as a parochial place where it's a lot of folks who are from there and a lot of big families, a lot of musical families, a lot of history, a lot of tradition, but I like to think of New Orleans as an idea.
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Sci-fi always runs out a little bit ahead of reality, right? Automatic doors in 'Star Trek,' stuff like that. It all happened, didn't it, finally?
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I'm having a really hard time with this retirement thing and not having wrestling.
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People's blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.
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I always wanted to perform. I remember being 5 years old and telling my parents to sit down as I was going to put on a play for them.
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There are times I turn off my Wi-Fi, and I'm selective about what I want to share with the world now.
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I grew up on a farm in Lexington, Oklahoma, a rural community south of Norman. My family moved to Enid, Oklahoma, in 1962, when I was a junior in high school. This cast me into a totally different environment. Enid was a company town for Champlin Petroleum, and there was an oil boom going on.
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We must get government out of the way and help foster an environment where small businesses are free to grow and create jobs.
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There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.
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The value of the security analyst to the investor depends largely on the investor's own attitude. If the investor asks the analyst the right questions, he is likely to get the right-or at least valuable- answers.
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I would love a family. I'm at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows.
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Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.
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Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot.
