Quotes by Ken Burns

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

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

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

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

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

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

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I think the problem with a lot of the fusion music is that it's extremely...

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

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

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

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

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I never, ever want to apologize for a film. If it's bad I'll say it's...

#Ken Burns