Kerouac

Kerouac is worth the read…

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn…”

https://youtu.be/UyktuCjOisc?list=RDUyktuCjOisc
Jack Kerouac – Blues and Haikus

“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.”

https://youtu.be/lsrOG0fXfPI?list=RDUyktuCjOisc
Jack Kerouac – When a Woman Loves a Man

“I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.”

https://youtu.be/AmOmAogOd2A?list=RDUyktuCjOisc
Jack Kerouac on Charlie Parker

“Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
— Jack Kerouac

https://youtu.be/Trw-Vvsn_nw
Jack Kerouac, King of the Beats (1985)
– Complete Documentary

“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.”
— Jack Kerouac

https://youtu.be/5ZlnfhIfIbk
Burroughs on Kerouac

“All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.”
— Jack Kerouac

https://youtu.be/_12rctV5Z84?list=PLFey1YrjP-FemIDp3Sa-Qc4yDRnUOQEfP
Pull My Daisy – 1959 (Sub Ita) [Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso]

“I was surprised, as always, be how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.”
— Jack Kerouac

https://youtu.be/BYgv7ur8ipg
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.: The Hippies
Guests: Lewis Yablonsky, Ed Sanders, Jack Kerouac

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
— Jack Kerouac

https://youtu.be/NZ8HTu_MOMA
Bob Dylan & Allen Ginsberg Visiting Jack Kerouac’s Grave (Lowell, MA., 1975)

“The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in the late forties, of a generation of crazy, illuminated hipsters suddenly rising and roaming America, serious, bumming and hitchhiking everywhere, ragged, beatific, beautiful in an ugly graceful new way.”
— Jack Kerouac

https://youtu.be/omuC-rLosQI?list=RDMM
Suffer to Sing The Blues · David Bromberg
The Best Of David Bromberg ℗ 1977

“I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.”
— Jack Kerouac