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You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches.

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Ken Burns
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: July 29
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I don't think that there has been a film that I've done that hasn't been influenced by libraries and archives.
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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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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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History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are.
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Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.
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History's just been made for sale to an inside deal.
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I think the problem with a lot of the fusion music is that its extremely predictable, its a rock rhythm and the solos all play the same stuff and they play it over and over again and theres a certain musical virtuosity involved in it.
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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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By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of Jazz.
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I enjoy total creative control right now. Nobody tells me to make it longer, shorter, better, sexier, more violent, whatever.
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People tend to forget that the word history contains the word story.
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It is the great arrogance of the present to forget the intelligence of the past
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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.
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I record all of my music with authentic instruments in a studio before we start editing, doing many, many versions. The music shapes the film as we edit so it has an organic relationship to the content.
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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.
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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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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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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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Civics is in fact politics, and politics is how things work not only in the political realm but in every other realm. It may be this simple mechanical glitch that unites everything. This is my philosophy.
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