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Music Quotes by Ken Burns
- The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.
- I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition of landscapes, live…
- I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts.
- 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…
- To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of Jazz.
- Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.
More Music Quotes
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- What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. — Louis Armstrong
- All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong
- What we play is life. — Louis Armstrong
- If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know. — Louis Armstrong
- We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself. — Louis Armstrong