 Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot. |
| That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want to be appreciated for what they have done. |
| In symphonic music, when you are conducting, you do the same thing. You are feeling the whole orchestra, thinking ahead so you can prepare for a change. |
| 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. |
| The idea of the peace movement and of people who spent their entire lives trying to have a more egalitarian, just society, suddenly became swamped by the record industry, by the new rock and roll culture, and by the idea of not trusting anyone over thirty. |
| A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington. |
| 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. |
| There are a lot of wonderful things created in our culture that have been ignored that can speak to them. |
| I was part of it, and I am still part of it today in terms of what it means to a whole new generation of people who are interested in the enduring energy, achievements, spirit and creativity that exemplified our era. |
| When you are accompanying someone, you are listening to them the way you listen to a Bach Chorale, where four parts are going on at the same time, all of which are gorgeous melodies, all being played simultaneously. |
| The atmosphere was wide open in those circles that we traveled in. |
| Even before he had one book published, Jack was one of those people you could feel was very special. |
| We met with the poet Frank O'Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum of Modern Art, where we had hoped to do the readings. |
| In a jazz atmosphere, the audience members were so quiet and respectful of the musicians that you felt you were almost part of a meeting at a church or a temple, where everyone was completely in tune with the sermon and what the whole event was about. |
| Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics. |
| I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last. |
| The Upper Bohemia people wore tuxedos in an art gallery, and Lower Bohemia was all of us. |
| When today's generation reads Jack's books or they listen to the music created by some of us, I believe that they see there is a different way of approaching today's life and today's sometimes seeming hopelessness that can provide answers. |
| Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture. |
| That is what I did with Jack, and that's why he liked to do the readings with me because he knew I was there for him, and for our ability to blend the poetry and the music. |
