Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.

Quote by Ken Burns

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The stories from 1975 on are not finished and there is no resolve. I could...

The stories from 1975 on are not finished and there is no resolve. I could...

You know, you meet some people, and do a lot of interviews, and you come...

You know, you meet some people, and do a lot of interviews, and you come...

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of...

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of...

To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious...

To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious...

History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence...

History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence...

Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to...

Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to...

We're having a hard time understanding where jazz is going. What happened to jazz?

We're having a hard time understanding where jazz is going. What happened to jazz?

I read cover to cover every jazz publication that I could and in the New...

I read cover to cover every jazz publication that I could and in the New...

I am passionately interested in understanding how my country works. And if you want to...

I am passionately interested in understanding how my country works. And if you want to...

I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find...

I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find...

History's just been made for sale to an inside deal.

History's just been made for sale to an inside deal.

I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment...

I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment...

In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of...

In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of...

I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist,...

I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist,...

A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm.

A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm.

I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were...

I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were...

One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always...

One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always...

I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what...

I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what...

It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're...

It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're...

You are your choices.

You are your choices.