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The way I work, the interview never becomes larger than the person being interviewed.

~Ken Burns

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I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now.

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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.

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Wynton told us that Miles sold out, just wanted to make more money, just wanted to sell more records. I don't believe that Miles sold out but I'm not in a position to say.

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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.

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We're having a hard time understanding where jazz is going. What happened to jazz?

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A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm.

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History's just been made for sale to an inside deal.

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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?

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Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: July 29th, 1953

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