Best quotes by Ken Burns on Music

Checkout quotes by Ken Burns on Music

• ‟ I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition of landscapes, live photography, the right music and interviews with people, and it becomes a style.

  - Ken Burns
  

• ‟ 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
  

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

  - Ken Burns
  

• ‟ I record all of my music with authentic instruments in a studio before we start editing, doing many, many versions. The music shapes the film as we edit so it has an organic relationship to the content.

  - 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.

  - Ken Burns
  

• ‟ I think the problem with a lot of the fusion music is that it's extremely predictable, it's a rock rhythm and the solos all play the same stuff and they play it over and over again and there's a certain musical virtuosity involved in it.

  - Ken Burns
  

• ‟ To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music for the sake of commercial gain.

  - Ken Burns