Quotes by T Bone Burnett

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 it may be to keep it as simple as possible.

May

Simple

Way

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.

Advancement

Art

Musician

I’m not stupid enough to want to be famous. But I would like to be able to earn a living playing music.

Playing Music

Stupid

Want

I’ve seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener.

Sound

Stress

Years

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.

Men

Study Group

Thinking

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.

Always Trying

Ironic

Overcoming

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.

Care

Hours

Want

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.

Conquer The World

Guitar

Kids

Music was the medium through which knowledge was passed from generation to generation.

Generations

Mediums

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.

Ethics

News

Song

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Advancement

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Always Trying

Anomalies

Art

Artist

Blind

Care

Conquer The World

Culture

Eight

Essence

Ethics

Flash

Generations

Generosity

Guitar

Hallmark

Hours

Ideas

Ironic

Junk

Kids

May

Mediums

Men

Musician

Needs

News

Overcoming

People

Perfect

Playing Music

Practice

Produce

Records

Rope

Shows

Simple

Song

Sound

Stress

Study Group

Stupid

Technology

Thinking

Two

Want

Way

Years

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Quotes by T Bone Burnett

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 it may be to keep it as simple as possible.

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.

I’m not stupid enough to want to be famous. But I would like to be able to earn a living playing music.

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 find God are his business. I think he went to a study group at the Vineyard, and it created a lot of excitement.

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.

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.

Music was the medium through which knowledge was passed from generation to generation.

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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