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You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches.
Ken Burns
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Ken Burns
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: July 29
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By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of Jazz.
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We strain to listen to the ghosts and echoes of our inexpressibly wise past, and we have an obligation to maintain these places, to provide these sanctuaries, so that people may be in the presence of forces larger than those of the moment.
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I have come to the realization that history is not a fixed thing, a collection of precise dates, facts and events (even cogent commencement quotes) that add up to a quantifiable, certain, confidently known, truth. It is a mysterious and malleable thing.
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People tend to forget that the word history contains the word story.
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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?
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The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.
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History's just been made for sale to an inside deal.
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I'm a filmmaker. I'm an artist. I've chosen to work in history the way someone might choose to work in still lifes or landscapes.
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I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head.
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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.
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When you are editing, the final master is Aristotle and his poetics. You might have a terrific episode, but if people are falling out because there are just too many elements in it, you have to begin to get rid of things.
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A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm.
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In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel.
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Do something that will last and be beautiful. It doesn't have to be a bridge-or a symphony or book or a business. It could be the look in the eye of a child you raise or a simple garden you tend. Do something that will last and be beautiful.
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There are no ordinary lives.
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You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living.
Ken Burns
Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.
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I wake the dead. I bring Jackie Robinson and the Roosevelts to life. Who do you think Im trying to wake up?
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I never, ever want to apologize for a film. If it's bad I'll say it's my fault. And that's what I can say so far in all the films that I've done, that if you don't like it, it's entirely my fault.
Ken Burns
Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.
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