T Bone Burnett Quotes

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• We live in an age of music for people who don't like music. The record industry discovered some time ago that there aren't that many…
• We live in an age lit by lightnin'; after the flash, we're blind again.
• 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.
• Honesty is the most subversive of all disguises,
• Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about…
• At different times in my life I met God from a different point of view.
• My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
• Listen, the story of the United States is this: One kid, without anything, walks out of his house, down the road, with nothing but a…
• Almost everything The Beatles did was great, and it's hard to improve on. They were our Bach. The way to get around it may be…
• I'm not going to get in to an argument with anyone about the relative merits of Judaism and Christianity, and what it means for a…
• I've seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener.
• In other words, I'd say the whole story of Bob Dylan is one man's search for God. The turns and the steps he takes to…
• You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol…
• Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a…
• 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 us…
• I'm not stupid enough to want to be famous. But I would like to be able to earn a living playing music.
• I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
• I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer.
• I love loud music. I listen loud, and that's part of how I've learned how to do this. Record softly and play back loud and…
• I naturally wanted to be saved, so when I came home I told my mom I wanted to be confirmed. That's the way I related…

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