Showing posts with label Ken Burns Quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ken Burns Quotes. Show all posts
Ken Burns Quotes
"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." - Ken Burns
Ken Burns Quotes
"We're having a hard time understanding where jazz is going. What happened to jazz?" - Ken Burns
Ken Burns Quotes
"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." - Ken Burns
Ken Burns Quotes
"The stories from 1975 on are not finished and there is no resolve. I could spend 50 hours on the last 25 years of jazz and still not do it justice." - Ken Burns
Ken Burns Quotes
"The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts." - Ken Burns
Ken Burns Quotes
"Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics and the Wright Brothers are to travel." - Ken Burns
Ken Burns Quotes
"Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America." - Ken Burns
Ken Burns Quotes
"I think the problem with a lot of the fusion music is that it's extremely predictable, it's a rock rhythm and the solos all play the same stuff and they play it over and over again and there's a certain musical virtuosity involved in it." - Ken Burns
Ken Burns Quotes
"I read cover to cover every jazz publication that I could and in the New York Times, every single day reading their jazz reviews even though I didn't put them in the films. I wanted to know what is going on." - Ken Burns
Ken Burns Quotes
"In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as Americans?" - Ken Burns
Ken Burns Quotes
"I have made a film about jazz that tries to look through jazz to see what it tells us about who we are as a people. I think that jazz is a spectacularly accurate model of democracy and a kind of look into our redemptive future possibilities." - Ken Burns
Ken Burns Quotes
"I can understand why some of these drummers and bass players become cult figures with all of their equipment and the incredible amount of technique they have. But there's very little that I think satisfies you intellectually or emotionally." - Ken Burns
Ken Burns Quotes
"I am passionately interested in understanding how my country works. And if you want to know about this thing called the United States of America you have to know about the Civil War." - Ken Burns
Ken Burns Quotes
"History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions." - Ken Burns
Ken Burns Quotes
"Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being." - Ken Burns
Featured Links
Jazz: A Film By Ken Burns DVD
http://www.history.com/dvd/ken-burns/
Ken Burns Jazz: The Story of America's Music CD [Box Set]
http://www.history.com/music/ken-burns/
