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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.
T Bone Burnett
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T Bone Burnett
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 14
Composer
Guitarist
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Singer-Songwriter
St. Louis
Missouri
Joseph Henry Burnett III
T-Bone Burnett
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I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
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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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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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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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I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer.
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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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I want to write songs and play them for people - live.
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I don't want to make music for people who don't care about music.
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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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[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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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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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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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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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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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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Risk is what separates the artist from the artisan.
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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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The internet has surrounded television and turned television into an art form.
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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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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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