Mel Torme Quotes

"Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film." - Mel Torme

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

Stanley Clarke Quotes

"I think I've done more recording in the past 10 years than most people, but it's all been directed toward film composing and soundtracks. Just the same, it's been great." - Stanley Clarke

Stanley Clarke Quotes

"Usually, when I do a soundtrack, the music from the movie doesn't have anything to do with me personally. It's music to enhance to the film. My own stuff is more introspective and about what's on going in my head." -Stanley Clarke

Cab Calloway Quotes

"A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that on stage." - Cab Calloway