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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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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Tally wondered if you could talk somebody out of their brain damage.
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Religions themselves are... peace-loving. They can also be a constructive force in peace-building, and this also applies to the Middle East.
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The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.
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The real amazing thing about all of this is I think I've maintained the mentality of a musician throughout it all, which I'm proudest of. And I'm still playing on people's records and singing on people's records.
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I'm not a Buddhist, or a card-carrying member of any religion.
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Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot.
