Happened Quote by Ken Burns Download Open image “We're having a hard time understanding where jazz is going. What happened to jazz?” — Ken Burns ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Happened Hard Hard time Having a hard time Jazz Learning Time Understanding
I don't know where jazz is going. Maybe it's going to hell. You can't make anything go anywhere. It just happens. — Thelonious Monk Copy Share Image
I'm aware that a lot of what is happening in jazz has not had a very dynamic change in a long time. — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
They say that Jazz is back, and I don't think it's gone anywhere. But they say it's back. — Art Blakey Copy Share Image
Nobody knows where jazz is going, because nobody has ever known where jazz was going. I mean, you couldn't possibly predict the Swing Era… — Gary Giddins Copy Share Image
Jazz is like a big secret club. The mainstream media doesn't pay any attention to it, it's like 1 percent of the music market… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
I don't know if the music moves forward anymore. I haven't heard anything for years - except refinement - coming out of the jazz… — Paul Smoker Copy Share Image
Today jazz is still very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians. — Toots Thielemans Copy Share Image
Hell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who is going to… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple. — Keith Jarrett Copy Share Image
Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being. — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
Write: write letters. Keep journals. Besides your children, there is no surer way of achieving immortality. — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts. — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
The reason why you do history, and particularly why you do war, is that you want to make sure that in the next war,… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
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? — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
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.… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
People tend to forget that the word "history" contains the word "story". — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are. — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
We strain to listen to the ghosts and echoes of our inexpressibly wise past, and we have an obligation to maintain these places, to… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
It follows the seasons, beginning each year with the fond expectancy of springtime and ending with the hard facts of autumn. — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee. — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
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How come I end up where I started How come I end up where I belong... You used to be alright What happened? — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
You have to talk about why things happened the way they did. You can't actually explain my political life except by a series of… — David Lange Copy Share Image
Becoming famous is a really shocking thing, especially when you don't have aspirations to it. It got to the point where I would try… — Alison Moyet Copy Share Image
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