I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts.
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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.Ken Burns
In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel.
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Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.
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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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A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm.
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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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