Ken Burns quotes - page 2

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)
We're having a hard time understanding where jazz is going. What happened to jazz? View quote
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I enjoy total creative control right now. Nobody tells me to make it longer, shorter, better, sexier, more violent, whatever. View quote
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The way I work, the interview never becomes larger than the person being interviewed. View quote
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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. View quote
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You need, as a historian, essential triangulation from your subject and the only way you get that triangulation is through time. View quote
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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. View quote
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I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head. View quote
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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? View quote
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History's just been made for sale to an inside deal. View quote
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I think my expectations for myself are much more severe and much more direct. You can't work on a film for six years without being your own toughest critic. So you can't really be distracted by the expectations based on your previous performance. (Ken Burns)
You know, you meet some people, and do a lot of interviews, and you come across a Buck O'Neill and you know you are going to know him for the rest of your life. The same thing happened with Curt Flood. View quote
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One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes. View quote
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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. View quote
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I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's active disengagement. View quote
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Ken Burns

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Occupation: American Director
Born: July 29, 1953
Quotes count: 40