I have made a film about jazz that tries to look through jazz to see what it tells us about who we are as a people. I think that jazz is a spectacularly accurate model of democracy and a kind of look into our redemptive future possibilities. – Ken Burns
The thing I like about baseball is that its one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, its your mistake. If you hit a home run, its your home run. – Hank Aaron