Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.
Ken Burns
-
Next Quote
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 -
Previous Quote
By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of jazz.
- Ken Burns -