Ken Burns Quotes


You need, as a historian, essential triangulation from your subject and the only way you get that triangulation is through time. - Ken Burns


You know, you meet some people, and do a lot of interviews, and you come across a Buck O'Neill and you know you are going to know him for the rest of your life. The same thing happened with Curt Flood. - Ken Burns


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


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


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


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


We want them to stop the current arrangement, share it with the public and hold hearings. - 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


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