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Ken Burns Quotes
A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm. - Ken Burns Quotes
By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of jazz. - Ken Burns Quotes
Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being. - Ken Burns Quotes
History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions. - Ken Burns Quotes
Historys just been made for sale to an inside deal. - Ken Burns Quotes
I am passionately interested in understanding how my country works. And if you want to know about this thing called the United States of America you have to know about the Civil War. - Ken Burns Quotes
I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films. - Ken Burns Quotes
I can understand why some of these drummers and bass players become cult figures with all of their equipment and the incredible amount of technique they have. But theres very little that I think satisfies you intellectually or emotionally. - Ken Burns Quotes
I dont use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts. - Ken Burns Quotes
I enjoy total creative control right now. Nobody tells me to make it longer, shorter, better, sexier, more violent, whatever. - Ken Burns Quotes
I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head. - Ken Burns Quotes
I have made a film about jazz that tries to look through jazz to see what it tells us about who we are as a people. I think that jazz is a spectacularly accurate model of democracy and a kind of look into our redemptive future possibilities. - Ken Burns Quotes
I have made all my films for my children with the exception of my first film because my oldest daughter wasnt born when I was making the film about the Brooklyn Bridge. - Ken Burns Quotes
I never, ever want to apologize for a film. If its bad Ill say its my fault. And thats what I can say so far in all the films that Ive done, that if you dont like it, its entirely my fault. - Ken Burns Quotes
I read cover to cover every jazz publication that I could and in the New York Times, every single day reading their jazz reviews even though I didnt put them in the films. I wanted to know what is going on. - Ken Burns Quotes
I record all of my music with authentic instruments in a studio before we start editing, doing many, many versions. The music shapes the film as we edit so it has an organic relationship to the content. - Ken Burns Quotes
I subscribe to William Faulkners view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now. - Ken Burns Quotes
I think my expectations for myself are much more severe and much more direct. You cant work on a film for six years without being your own toughest critic. So you cant really be distracted by the expectations based on your previous performance. - Ken Burns Quotes
I think the problem with a lot of the fusion music is that its extremely predictable, its a rock rhythm and the solos all play the same stuff and they play it over and over again and theres a certain musical virtuosity involved in it. - Ken Burns Quotes
I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what were lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and its worse than fear - its active disengagement. - Ken Burns Quotes
I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition of landscapes, live photography, the right music and interviews with people, and it becomes a style. - Ken Burns Quotes
In a sense Ive made the same film over and over again. In all of them Ive asked, Who are we as Americans? - Ken Burns Quotes
In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel. - Ken Burns Quotes
Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America. - Ken Burns Quotes
Like a layer on a pearl, you cant specifically identify the irritant, the moment of the irritant, but at the end of the day, you know you have a pearl. - Ken Burns Quotes
Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics. - Ken Burns Quotes
One of the things I really like about Fords films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes. - Ken Burns Quotes
The flame is not out, but it is flickering. - Ken Burns Quotes
The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. Its our great contribution to the arts. - Ken Burns Quotes
The stories from 1975 on are not finished and there is no resolve. I could spend 50 hours on the last 25 years of jazz and still not do it justice. - Ken Burns Quotes
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