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Ken Burns

"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."

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"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."

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Donna Grant

"To make dollars from cents you have to have sense."

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Donna Grant

"A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it."

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Donna Grant

"Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth."

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Donna Grant

"Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them."

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Donna Grant

"To understand someone, find out how he spends his money."

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Donna Grant

"Egoism and Money [Goddess of wealth; Lakshmi] are very much at odds [have great enmity]. There should be just enough egoism to accomplish one's work. Beyond that, any expanded egoism and money have great enmity. Money (Lakshmi) stays away from it."

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Donna Grant

"Money cannot buy you love. But it sure can buy you things that some people will love you for having."

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Donna Grant

"When a fellow says, "It ain't the money but the principle of the thing," it's the money."

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Donna Grant

"If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them."

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Donna Grant

"All about the fucking money... money... money... thinking it's for the good for your generation... but so far it's neither and for that and neither and for that... It's mostly for the worst of your generation and other's generations."

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Ken Burns
"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."

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Ken Burns
"A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm."

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Ken Burns
"In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as Americans?"

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Ken Burns
"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."

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Ken Burns
"I never, ever want to apologize for a film. If it's bad I'll say it's my fault. And that's what I can say so far in all the films that I've done, that if you don't like it, it's entirely my fault."

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Ken Burns
"I read cover to cover every jazz publication that I could and in the New York Times, every single day reading their jazz reviews even though I didn't put them in the films. I wanted to know what is going on."

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Ken Burns
"You know, you meet some people, and do a lot of interviews, and you come across a Buck O'Neill and you know you are going to know him for the rest of your life. The same thing happened with Curt Flood."

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Ken Burns
"When you are editing, the final master is Aristotle and his poetics. You might have a terrific episode, but if people are falling out because there are just too many elements in it, you have to begin to get rid of things."

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Ken Burns
"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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Ken Burns
"I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films."

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