Amram Ebgi Quotes

Why do we 'drive' on a 'parkway' but 'park' at a 'strip club'? ~ Megan Amram

If you're lucky enough to have a position where people listen to you, you should say stuff you believe in - but not if you're Jenny McCarthy. Then you should shut up. But if you're right, like Amy Poehler, then speak up. ~ Megan Amram

I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last. ~ David Amram

I'm on Twitter, but I'm not super active. I follow a lot of the same people that a lot of people follow: Rob Delaney, Megan Amram, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, people I've worked with. ~ Randall Park

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

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

I feel confused about what I'm supposed to be doing as a feminist because I do like fashion, and I do like magazines, too. I buy them on airplanes. I like seeing what hot trends are new this fall. It makes me feel very conflicted a lot of the time. ~ Megan 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

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

Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot. ~ David Amram

There might be people who have never even tweeted before who are just working on their great American tweet. It will be so good that we'll all have to stop Twitter right away. I would like to write the great American tweet. I don't think the great American tweet has been written yet. We'd know. ~ Megan Amram

A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington. ~ David Amram

Tweeting is a great way to practice writing jokes, but there is so much more to comedy writing than just jokes. Jokes are a necessity, but you also have to learn how to write characters, to break a story, to keep coherence between episodes. I've learned more by being a TV writer than I ever could've on my own. ~ Megan Amram

I am in no way a confident person - except when it comes to what I'm writing. It's just like, this is what I can do, and I have what I think is a pretty strong voice, for better or worse. It's the style I like to write in. ~ Megan 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

I kind of want everyone to think I'm a crazy person. ~ Megan Amram

To develop your own voice, you have to keep writing a ton, and this is something where I think Twitter is helpful. I use it to write a ton of jokes. You have to write a ton of bad stuff before you know what you're good at. And that's what some people I think have trouble with, the thought of getting past the bad stuff. ~ Megan Amram

Even before he had one book published, Jack was one of those people you could feel was very special. ~ David Amram

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

My mom and brother are both doctors, and it seems crazy that so many people think science is a mutable idea. ~ Megan Amram

Men are like parking spots: sometimes I drive my car into them ~ Megan Amram

My dream of dreams is to write Broadway musicals. All of this Twitter and TV writing is just a day job. ~ Megan Amram

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

Support other women! We are taught to be competitive with other women, to vie with them for the 'girl spot' in a group or job. Anything that helps an individual woman is good for all of us! Love and support your friends! ~ Megan Amram

This is a pretty shitty flash mob. It's in my living room, only my family showed up, and they're just telling me to stop drinking. ~ Megan Amram

The Upper Bohemia people wore tuxedos in an art gallery, and Lower Bohemia was all of us. ~ David Amram

I think very long and hard about every possibly offensive joke I want to make. I really hate mean humor and would hate to make anyone reading my jokes feel truly bad. ~ Megan Amram

The first time I heard Ron Whitehead read I felt what I imagine those who heard Abraham Lincoln deliver The Gettysburg Address felt. ~ David Amram

The atmosphere was wide open in those circles that we traveled in. ~ 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

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