"The Arts are not a decoration. They are not to follow the understanding of political curves. The Arts are hear to inform the body politic—-to inform as well as entertain—and to resist authority if it doesn’t stand inspection."
Van Dyke Parks: Make The World More Beautiful
Van Dyke Parks established a recording career as artist,…
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"The Beats and music are connected through poetry, purity, ingenuity, experimentation, all with a childlike sense of abandon and absorption in whatever milieu they find themselves."
Nancy Calef: The Way of Peoplescapes…
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"They are all linked, but music is superior to literature and politics. You can listen to a great song 5000 times and grow each time. You can't read a novel or a poem or hear a political speech too often...its unmoving - sometimes it's rhetoric. Toilet paper."
Tom Russell: The Rose of…
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"Jazz had a liberating momentum for the Beat writers, with its long-winded improvisation."
Steven Gray: The Barrio of Pagan Socialist
Steven Gray has been living in San…
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"Living life one ‘in the moment at a time; death is just a breath away."
Hammond Guthrie: Classic of Changes
Hammond Guthrie is a well traveled painter and author currently living in Portland,…
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“The universe is all around us, but when they look up at the sky, all they see is the sun, the moon, and stars.”
A.D. Winans: The Golden Gate Poet
A.D. Winans is a native San Francisco poet and writer. He is the author of…
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"His philosophy was to live his life that way he wanted to live it, and nothing was allowed to get in the way of that."
Shig Murao: The Soul of the Rising Sun
Shigeyoshi…
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