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"A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington."
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"You can only do so much theatre."
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"Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often."
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"I always go back to theatre. It's probably where I'll draw my last breath."
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"All of a sudden Kevin told me that the movie got bought and was gonna be shown in a movie theatre. I was shocked. I was psyched. It was just weird."
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"I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it."
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"I had such extraordinary breaks from the moment I entered the theater."
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"I come from a TV background, so for me this more like doing a freeing theatre piece because we'd go into a room and do the scene, instead of doing it as a wide shot, medium shot, and close up with only the odd line of dialogue."
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"I prefer theatre but TV keeps you well known."
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"A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington."
Theatre
"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."
Music
"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."
Music
"I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last."
Music
"In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing, and then you play something that compliments that, so you are thinking simultaneously and thinking ahead."
Compliment
"Even before he had one book published, Jack was one of those people you could feel was very special."
People
"Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture."
Education
"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."
Time
"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."
Art
"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."
People
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