Ken Burns

The flame is not out, but it is flickering. ↗

— Ken Burns

#flickering #out

The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts. ↗

— Ken Burns

#contribution #country #genius #great #improvisation

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

#finished #hours #i #jazz #justice

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

— Ken Burns

#being #i #interview #interviewed #larger

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

#choice #commercial #compromise #conscious #gain

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

— Ken Burns

#happened #hard #hard time #having #jazz

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

#been #documentary #every #film #filmmaker

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. ↗

— Ken Burns

#i #just #make #miles #money

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

#history #i #i do #learn #learning

You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches. ↗

— Ken Burns

#blind #myriad #other #six #something