T Bone Burnett

Listen, the story of the United States is this: One kid, without anything, walks out of his house, down the road, with…

— T Bone Burnett

At different times in my life I met God from a different point of view.

— T Bone Burnett

If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.

— T Bone Burnett

For centuries, everything was taught through music. History was taught through music; language and mathematics were taught through music.

— T Bone Burnett

It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always…

— T Bone Burnett

Honesty is the most subversive of all disguises,

— T Bone Burnett

The essence of show business is, if you see a tight-rope walker go across a tight rope, everybody claps. But, if you…

— T Bone Burnett

I don't want to make music for people who don't care about music.

— T Bone Burnett

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

Let the business take care of itself. If you get involved in the business, every hour that you're involved in business is…

— T Bone Burnett

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

My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.

— T Bone Burnett

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

Risk is what separates the artist from the artisan.

— T Bone Burnett

I think we in the Alpha Band, which was a strange group anyway, weren't dealing with any of these issues. They sneaked…

— T Bone Burnett

I think, especially among the New York intelligentsia at that time, that there was a reason Bob Dylan went to New York…

— T Bone Burnett

If Picasso walked into Disney looking for a job, they would throw him out on the street. Couldn't draw good enough.

— T Bone Burnett

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

Almost everything The Beatles did was great, and it's hard to improve on. They were our Bach. The way to get around…

— T Bone Burnett

Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached…

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I want to write songs and play them for people - live.

— T Bone Burnett

Technology changes nothing.

— T Bone Burnett

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

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

In other words, I'd say the whole story of Bob Dylan is one man's search for God. The turns and the steps…

— T Bone Burnett