Ken Burns Quotes About Jazz

Quotes about: Jazz

• 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.

  Ken Burns

  Important, Jazz, Physics

  Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns (2000). “Jazz: a history of America's music”, Knopf

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

  Ken Burns

  Music, Country, Art

• By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of Jazz.

  Ken Burns

  Music, Jazz, Jazz Music

• Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.

  Ken Burns

  Music, America, Jazz

• 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.

  Ken Burns

  New York, Reading, Jazz

• 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

  Years, Justice, Stories

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

  Ken Burns

  Hard Times, Understanding, Jazz

• 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.

  Ken Burns

  Art, Land, Community

  "Ken Burns and Yusef Salaam Talk THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE; Plus Burns Talks Upcoming Projects like THE ROOSEVELTS, JACKIE ROBINSON and VIETNAM". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 17, 2012.

• A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm.

  Ken Burns

  Jazz, Beats, Rhythm

• 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.

  Ken Burns

  Thinking, People, Democracy

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