Music was the medium through which knowledge was passed from generation to generation. — T Bone Burnett Copy Share Image
I'm not stupid enough to want to be famous. But I would like to be able to earn a living playing music. — T Bone Burnett Copy Share Image
Probably the deepest use of music and of art is to create conscience. — T Bone Burnett Copy Share Image
For centuries, everything was taught through music. History was taught through music; language and mathematics were taught through music. — T Bone Burnett Copy Share Image
I love loud music. I listen loud, and that's part of how I've learned how to do this. Record softly and play… — T Bone Burnett Copy Share Image
My advice for young people is that, if you want to be a musician, the thing to do is practice eight hours… — T Bone Burnett Copy Share Image
The more perfect music we have, the more attractive the peculiarities and anomalies of human performance become. Perfection is a second rate… — T Bone Burnett Copy Share Image
I can tell for sure, the technologists have made it clear that they don't care about musicians. The arts have been sacrificed… — T Bone Burnett Copy Share Image
When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to… — T Bone Burnett Copy Share Image
You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There… — T Bone Burnett Copy Share Image
Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western… — T Bone Burnett Copy Share Image
We live in an age of music for people who don't like music. The record industry discovered some time ago that there… — T Bone Burnett Copy Share Image
Music, for centuries and centuries, was used to teach everything. It was used to teach language, mathematics, history. The news was music.… — T Bone Burnett Copy Share Image
There's always been an incredible amount of junk music, and junk everything. Marshall McLuhan said that a medium surrounds a previous medium,… — T Bone Burnett Copy Share Image
Listen, the story of the United States is this: One kid, without anything, walks out of his house, down the road, with nothing but… — T Bone Burnett Copy Share
If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me. — T Bone Burnett Copy Share
For centuries, everything was taught through music. History was taught through music; language and mathematics were taught through music. — T Bone Burnett Copy Share
It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to… — T Bone Burnett Copy Share
The essence of show business is, if you see a tight-rope walker go across a tight rope, everybody claps. But, if you see him… — T Bone Burnett Copy Share
The more perfect music we have, the more attractive the peculiarities and anomalies of human performance become. Perfection is a second rate idea. — T Bone Burnett Copy Share
Let the business take care of itself. If you get involved in the business, every hour that you're involved in business is an hour… — T Bone Burnett Copy Share
When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild. — T Bone Burnett Copy Share
I can tell for sure, the technologists have made it clear that they don't care about musicians. The arts have been sacrificed on the… — T Bone Burnett Copy Share
I think we in the Alpha Band, which was a strange group anyway, weren't dealing with any of these issues. They sneaked up on… — T Bone Burnett Copy Share
