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"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."
"Music is the only language which can be understood by everyone-even a tree can understand music."
"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."
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"I have made all my films for my children with the exception of my first film because my oldest daughter wasn't born when I was making the film about the Brooklyn Bridge."
"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."
"One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes."
"The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts."
"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."
"I think my expectations for myself are much more severe and much more direct. You can't work on a film for six years without being your own toughest critic. So you can't really be distracted by the expectations based on your previous performance."
"You need, as a historian, essential triangulation from your subject and the only way you get that triangulation is through time."
"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."
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