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
-
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.
-
I hope to get out before they start football next year.
-
I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
-
My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
-
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.
-
Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?
-
I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up.
-
I was definitely a Daddy's boy.
-
I don't compose, actually. I just record. I'm the opposite of a composer in my way of working. I'm more instinctive.
-
I sang the songs in 'The Doors'.
-
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.
-
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
-
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.
-
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?
-
I'm having a really hard time with this retirement thing and not having wrestling.
-
People's blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Life without the courage to die is slavery.
-
I got my first break and became a singing waiter at eighteen or nineteen. I couldn't make a living at it. I quit. Then I got married and sold aluminum siding. My wife had problems physically. It was not good.
-
Loyalty to a company, it's nonsense.
-
When you're taxing bovine flatulence emissions, there's nothing left to tax.
-
Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot.
