Quotes by T Bone Burnett - Page 1

Technology changes nothing.
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The hallmark of an artist is generosity.
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Artist
Generosity
Hallmark
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I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
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Figured
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Honesty is the most subversive of all disguises.
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Disguise
Honesty
Subversive
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Risk is what separates the artist from the artisan.
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Artisans
Artist
Risk
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I want to write songs and play them for people - live.
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Play
Song
Writing
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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Ideas
Produce
Records
Original Idea
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I don't want to make music for people who don't care about music.
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Care
People
Want
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Probably the deepest use of music and of art is to create conscience.
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Art
Art Is
Use
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At different times in my life I met God from a different point of view.
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Different
Different Times
Mets
Point Of View
Views
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We live in an age lit by lightnin'; after the flash, we're blind again.
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Age
Blind
Flash
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The internet has surrounded television and turned television into an art form.
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Art
Internet
Television
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Music was the medium through which knowledge was passed from generation to generation.
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Generations
Mediums
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If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.
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Enough
Personal Relationships
Relationship With God
God Relationship Me
Personal Relationship
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I've seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener.
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Digital
Last Year
Sound
Stress
Study
Years
Listener
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I'm not stupid enough to want to be famous. But I would like to be able to earn a living playing music.
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Playing Music
Stupid
Want
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I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer.
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Producers
Recording Studio
School
School High School High
Bought
Producer
Operating
Studio
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I don't hear any of the popular stuff unless it's good 'cause I pay no attention to popular culture, at all.
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Attention
Culture
Pay
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My advice for young people is that, if you want to be a musician, the thing to do is practice eight hours a day.
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Eight
People
Practice
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If Picasso walked into Disney looking for a job, they would throw him out on the street. Couldn't draw good enough.
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Jobs
Enough
Streets
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For centuries, everything was taught through music. History was taught through music; language and mathematics were taught through music.
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Language
Mathematics
Taught
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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 in it.
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War
Bloody
Civil War
Hatred
Hippie
Civil
Struck
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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.
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Art
Music
Running
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The more perfect music we have, the more attractive the peculiarities and anomalies of human performance become. Perfection is a second rate idea.
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Anomalies
Ideas
Perfect
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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 wobble, everybody gasps.
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Essence
Rope
Shows
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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 a whole other thing happens.
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I've Learned
Loud
Play
Records
Love Music Back
Softly
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I made a few records here and there by default, but I wasn't ever comfortable in that role. I wasn't comfortable on stage. We'll see how it goes this time.
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Comfortable
Default
Records
Stage
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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 to keep it as simple as possible.
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May
Simple
Way
Almost Everything
Bach
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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 competition.
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Civilization
Competition
Musician
Pregnancy
States
Western
Western Civilization
Writer
Record
Record Business
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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 altar of technological advancement.
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Art
Advancement
Musician
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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 get records louder and louder to overcome that.
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Always Trying
Ironic
Noise
Old Days
Overcoming
Records
Tape
Vinyl
Overcome
Louder
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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 record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.
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Documents
Records
Two
Years
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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 and took us over, before we know what was going on.
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Band
Groups
Issues
Strange
Thinking
Alpha
Anyway
Dealing
Group
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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 to it, being raised an Episcopalian. I went to Dallas and got confirmed.
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Home
Mom
Dallas
Raised
Related
Saved
Naturally
Confirmed
Episcopalian
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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 Jewish kid to be a Christian - I'm just not interested in that argument.
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Kids
Argument
Christian
Christianity
Judaism
Mean
Not Interested
Relative
Jewish
Anyone
Interested
Merits
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[Bob] Dylan began to incorporate things into that scene that were controversial then. He got shouted at in Newport when he played electric guitar, for instance. There was a certain purity that was sought among those people.
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Bob
Guitar
People
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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 find God are his business. I think he went to a study group at the Vineyard, and it created a lot of excitement.
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Men
Dylan
Excitement
Steps
Study
Study Group
Thinking
Turns
Bob Dylan
Group
In Other Words
Search
Takes
Vineyard
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But my point is these Civil War songs were gruesome. The hatred that's so bad in this country today, and for the past 10 or 15 years, bad as it is, is nothing compared to the kind of things people would write down and sing back in the Civil War.
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Civil War
Civil
Compared
Gruesome
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The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.
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Art
Compromise
People
Thinking
Individuals
Record
Record Business
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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 that you're not practicing. And every hour that you're not practicing is another hour further away from where you want to be.
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Care
Hours
Want
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Music, for centuries and centuries, was used to teach everything. It was used to teach language, mathematics, history. The news was music. Everything traveled by song. It was used to teach ethics. It was used to create conscience, probably more than anything.
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Ethics
News
Song
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People make art on the sides of buildings, and they'll make art on the sides of trains. They'll make art wherever they decide to make art. The technology that people are working with now will be replaced in 10 years, so that's not where your future is, if you're a musician.
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Art
Technology
Years
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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, television surrounded it and turned it into an art form.
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Art
Culture
Junk
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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 guitar and conquers the world. And we've done that again, and again, and again – Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Jimmy Rogers, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters.
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Kids
Conquer The World
Guitar
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I think, especially among the New York intelligentsia at that time, that there was a reason Bob Dylan went to New York to happen, because there was a culture developed there around the ideas of civil rights, around the idea of democracy growing out of Emerson and Thoreau, these ideas of the fanfare for the common man.
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New York
Men
Thinking
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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 people who actually like music. For a lot of people, music's annoying, or at the very least they don't need it. They discovered if they could sell music to a lot of those people, they could sell a lot more records.
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Age
Needs
People
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