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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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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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A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm.
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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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The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.
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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.
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Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.
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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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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 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.
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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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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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History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are.
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I have made all my films for my children with the exception of my first film because my oldest daughter wasn't born when I was making the film about the Brooklyn Bridge.
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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 grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head.
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History's just been made for sale to an inside deal.
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People tend to forget that the word history contains the word story.
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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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