Quotes by Ken Burns

I have made a film about jazz that tries to look through jazz to see...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

#Ken Burns

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

#Diaries

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

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By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of jazz.

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A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm.

#Ken Burns