Wynton told us that Miles sold out, just wanted to make more money, just wanted to sell more records. I don't believe that Miles sold out but I'm not in a position to say.

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In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more...

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

The flame is not out, but it is flickering.

The flame is not out, but it is flickering.

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

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

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

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I can understand why some of these drummers and bass players become cult figures with...

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

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When a documentary filmmaker, working in the style that I do, suggests that there has...

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

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

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

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

I enjoy total creative control right now. Nobody tells me to make it longer, shorter,...

I enjoy total creative control right now. Nobody tells me to make it longer, shorter,...

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

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

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

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

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

Like a layer on a pearl, you can't specifically identify the irritant, the moment of...

Like a layer on a pearl, you can't specifically identify the irritant, the moment of...