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Ken Burns Quotes

Ken Burns quotes

American Director July 29, 1953

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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
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. Ken Burns
Ken Burns quote: "The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects..."
The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts. Ken Burns
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. Ken Burns
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. Ken Burns
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. Ken Burns
You need, as a historian, essential triangulation from your subject and the only way you get that triangulation is through time. Ken Burns
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
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 for the sake of commercial gain. Ken Burns
When a documentary filmmaker, working in the style that I do, suggests that there has been a shooting ratio of 40 hours to every one hour of finished film, that doesn't mean that the other 39 are bad. Ken Burns
History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions. Ken Burns
Ken Burns quote: "The way I work, the interview never becomes larger than the..."
The way I work, the interview never becomes larger than the person being interviewed. Ken Burns
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. Ken Burns
Ken Burns quote: "I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the..."
I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts. Ken Burns
Ken Burns quote: "It is the great arrogance of the present to forget the..."
It is the great arrogance of the present to forget the intelligence of the past Ken Burns

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