Louis Armstrong is quitesimply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics.
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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?
[Sometimes, for example, we assume the people hearing us don't know anything. I've read a commentator saying that the new] Jazz ... OK, we got that part, move on.
This is what I don't understand, why we're not taught this. I mean, you would be hard pressed to say that there was no machine more important than the car in the last 100 years. Nothing has been more influential in how we live, how we work, what's worked itself into our songs, into our mythology. The idea of a road trip is very much in everyone's life, and this is the first road trip.
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.
This quote is just one of 8 total Ken Burns quotes in our collection. Ken Burns is known for saying '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.' as well as some of the following quotes.