Certain Musical Quotes by Ken Burns

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Ken Burns has 54 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not…
• History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.
• Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.
• The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.
• We're having a hard time understanding where jazz is going. What happened to jazz?
• I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition…
• I think we continually need to understand how important an event the war was - how defining, how central to who we…
• 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…
• A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm.
• History's just been made for sale to an inside deal.
• I am passionately interested in understanding how my country works. And if you want to know about this thing called the United…
• I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and…

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