David Amram Quotes

Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot.

David Amram

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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.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Up
  • Think
  • Career

• I hope to get out before they start football next year.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Hope
  • Football
  • Start

• I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Done
  • Wonder
  • Tough

• My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.

  

  Harley Viera-Newton
  • Family
  • Learning
  • Grandmother

• 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.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Small

• Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?

  

  Edmund H. North
  • Why
  • Bad
  • Small

• I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up.

  

  Vanna White
  • People
  • Think
  • See

• I was definitely a Daddy's boy.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Boy
  • Definitely
  • Daddy

• I don't compose, actually. I just record. I'm the opposite of a composer in my way of working. I'm more instinctive.

  

  Yann Tiersen
  • Way
  • Working
  • Opposite

• I sang the songs in 'The Doors'.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Songs
  • Doors
  • Sang

• 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.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • World
  • Girl
  • Romantic

• The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Men
  • Business
  • Leader

• 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.

  

  Irvin Mayfield
  • People
  • History
  • City

• 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?

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Reality
  • Star
  • Doors

• I'm having a really hard time with this retirement thing and not having wrestling.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Time
  • Wrestling
  • Retirement

• People's blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • People
  • Work
  • Power

• 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.

  

  Tammin Sursok
  • Remember
  • Parents
  • Down

• This is going to make me sound ancient, but I remember Juhu Beach when there weren't any buildings on it. You'd go through countryside and arrive at this amazing beach. I remember driving from Delhi to the Qutab Minar through countryside. Mehrauli was a little village - that's all gone.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Remember
  • Amazing
  • Driving

• You got to try and reach for the stars or try and achieve the unreachable.

  

  Cathy Freeman
  • Stars
  • Achieve
  • Unreachable

• I don't like to be alone, but I do cherish the moments that I'm alone with a good book.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Good
  • Book
  • Alone

• The proudest thing I have ever done was to win the singles, doubles, and mixed doubles at Wimbledon.

  

  Bobby Riggs
  • Done

• I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be an absolute catastrophe. I would certainly be interested in deserving it, but to

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

• There is a certain silence that can emanate from a lifeless object as from a chair lately used, or from a piano with old dust upon its keys, or from anything that has answered to the need of a man, for pleasure or for work. This kind of silence can speak. Its voice may be melancholy, but it is not always so; for the chair may have been left by a laughing child or the last notes of the piano may have been raucous and gay. Whatever the mood or the circumstance, the essence of its quality may linger in the silence that follows. It is a soundless echo.

  

  Beryl Markham
  • Gay
  • Silence
  • Pleasure

• Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot.

  

  David Amram