To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music for the sake of commercial gain.

Quote by Ken Burns

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You need, as a historian, essential triangulation from your subject and the only way you...

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You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you...

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I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the...

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

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Wynton told us that Miles sold out, just wanted to make more money, just wanted...

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

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I record all of my music with authentic instruments in a studio before we start...

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

I think my expectations for myself are much more severe and much more direct. You...

I think my expectations for myself are much more severe and much more direct. You...

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...