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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
Quotes Choice Quotes Music Quotes Gain Quotes Artist Quotes Compromise Quotes
Published on: January 20, 2025 07:00 PM
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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.
- Ken Burns
Quotes Years Quotes Justice Quotes Jazz Quotes
Published on: January 10, 2025 03:00 PM
I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now.
- Ken Burns
Quotes Now Quotes History Quotes
Published on: January 8, 2025 07:53 PM
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.
- Ken Burns
Quotes Life Quotes Fear Quotes Choices Quotes Safety Quotes Cynicism Quotes
Published on: January 3, 2025 07:43 AM
History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.
- Ken Burns
Quotes Popular Quotes Light Quotes History Quotes Challenge Quotes Diaries Quotes
Published on: December 9, 2024 11:24 PM
The way I work, the interview never becomes larger than the person being interviewed.
- Ken Burns
Quotes Work Quotes Being Quotes
Published on: October 24, 2024 05:27 PM
The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.
- Ken Burns
Quotes Country Quotes Jazz Quotes Genius Quotes
Published on: October 11, 2024 01:22 PM
When you are editing, the final master is Aristotle and his poetics. You might have a terrific episode, but if people are falling out because there are just too many elements in it, you have to begin to get rid of things.
- Ken Burns
Quotes People Quotes
Published on: September 18, 2024 08:10 AM
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 photography, the right music and interviews with people, and it becomes a style.
- Ken Burns
Quotes Right Quotes People Quotes Style Quotes Work Quotes Photography Quotes Music Quotes Drama Quotes Complexity Quotes
Published on: September 10, 2024 06:00 PM
We're having a hard time understanding where jazz is going. What happened to jazz?
- Ken Burns
Quotes Time Quotes Understanding Quotes Jazz Quotes
Published on: September 10, 2024 03:07 PM

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