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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."
"Great songs don't grow on trees, yet lots of songs have been written on great trees."
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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 don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts."
"You need, as a historian, essential triangulation from your subject and the only way you get that triangulation is through time."
"Wynton told us that Miles sold out, just wanted to make more money, just wanted to sell more records. I don't believe that Miles sold out but I'm not in a position to say."
"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."
"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."
"When a documentary filmmaker, working in the style that I do, suggests that there has been a shooting ratio of 40 hours to every one hour of finished film, that doesn't mean that the other 39 are bad."
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