There's always been an incredible amount of junk music, and junk everything. Marshall McLuhan said that a medium surrounds a previous medium, and turns the previous medium into an art form. So, what was once a junk culture, like film,… — T Bone Burnett Copy Share Image
Music was the medium through which knowledge was passed from generation to generation. — 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 Image
At different times in my life I met God from a different point of view. — T Bone Burnett Copy Share Image
If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me. — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
