Grace Abbott Quotes
American - Activist November 17, 1878 - June 19, 1939
Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.
Grace Abbott
I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on the handles of the baby carriage and I wheel it into the traffic.
Grace Abbott
Sometimes when I get home at night in Washington I feel as though I had been in a great traffic jam.
Grace Abbott
The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school.
Grace Abbott
The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government.
Grace Abbott
Lee Strasberg Quotes
American - Director November 17, 1901 - February 17, 1982
Acting isn't something you do. Instead of doing it, it occurs. If you're going to start with logic, you might as well give up. You can have conscious preparation, but you have unconscious results.
Lee Strasberg
Acting is the most personal of our crafts. The make-up of a human being - his physical, mental and emotional habits - influence his acting to a much greater extent than commonly recognized.
Lee Strasberg
If we cannot see the possibility of greatness, how can we dream it?
Lee Strasberg
The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe.
Lee Strasberg
A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered.
Lee Strasberg
Art is longer than life.
Lee Strasberg
An actors' tribute to me is in his work.
Lee Strasberg
David Amram Quotes
American - Composer Born: November 17, 1930
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.
David Amram
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.
David Amram
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.
David Amram
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.
David Amram
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.
David Amram
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.
David Amram
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.
David Amram
Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot.
David Amram
The Upper Bohemia people wore tuxedos in an art gallery, and Lower Bohemia was all of us.
David Amram
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.
David Amram
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.
David Amram
I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last.
David Amram
A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington.
David Amram
Even before he had one book published, Jack was one of those people you could feel was very special.
David Amram
The atmosphere was wide open in those circles that we traveled in.
David Amram
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.
David Amram
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.
David Amram
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.
David Amram
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.
David Amram
Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture.
David Amram
Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.
David Amram
Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful portraits that may still hang in Greenwich Village.
David Amram
There are a lot of wonderful things created in our culture that have been ignored that can speak to them.
David Amram
Gordon Lightfoot Quotes
Canadian - Musician Born: November 17, 1938
You just get the vibes of your surroundings and it rubs off on you.
Gordon Lightfoot
Turning back the pages of my sweet shattered dream, I wonder if she'll ever do the same; And the thing that I call living is just being satisfied With knowing I've got no one left to blame.
Gordon Lightfoot
I'm not really a bird person or an Audubon guy who studies them, but as I was around them, they interested me.
Gordon Lightfoot
All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.
Gordon Lightfoot
I try to keep it light and positive most of the time, whereas earlier on I didn't always do that.
Gordon Lightfoot
I don't think they should regulate the music field. I don't see how they can regulate the arts.
Gordon Lightfoot
I know that we're being inexorably taken over by the Americans. Without a doubt. I don't mean invaded or anything like that, just taken over. By degrees.
Gordon Lightfoot
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