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Ken Burns

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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






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At 22 upon graduation he and two college friends founded Florentine Films in Walpole New Hampshire. For example in a photograph of a baseball team he might slowly pan across the faces of the players and come to rest on the player who is the subject of the narrator. In endorsing Barack Obama for the U.

Kenneth Lauren "Ken" Burns (born July 29 1953) is an American director and producer of documentary films known for his style of using archival footage and photographs.

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