Ken Burns Quotes About Jazz
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We're having a hard time understanding where jazz is going. What happened to jazz?
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Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.
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A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm.
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Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics.
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The only art form that Americans have created that's recognized around the world is jazz music born in a community that had the peculiar experience of being unfree in a free land.
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I have made a film about jazz that tries to look through jazz to see what it tells us about who we are as a people. I think that jazz is a spectacularly accurate model of democracy and a kind of look into our redemptive future possibilities.
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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.
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By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of Jazz.
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The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.
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I read cover to cover every jazz publication that I could and in the New York Times, every single day reading their jazz reviews even though I didn't put them in the films. I wanted to know what is going on.
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