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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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"My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces."

"I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York."

"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."

"I always go back to theatre. It's probably where I'll draw my last breath."

"I grew up in Washington, D.C. But also loving the theater."

"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."

"I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence."

"I had such extraordinary breaks from the moment I entered the theater."
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"Even before he had one book published, Jack was one of those people you could feel was very special."


"I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature."


"There are a lot of wonderful things created in our culture that have been ignored that can speak to them."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture."


"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."
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