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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.

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