Author: Ken Burns

Quotes

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.

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

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

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

- Ken Burns

I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts.

I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts.

- 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.

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 is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.

History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.

- Ken Burns

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

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

- Ken Burns

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

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

- Ken Burns

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