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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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T Bone Burnett
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 14
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Record Producer
Singer-Songwriter
St. Louis
Missouri
Joseph Henry Burnett III
T-Bone Burnett
Playing
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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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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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At different times in my life I met God from a different point of view.
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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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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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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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Technology changes nothing.
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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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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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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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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 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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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 figured out early on what I wanted to do.
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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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I don't want to make music for people who don't care about music.
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The internet has surrounded television and turned television into an art form.
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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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If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.
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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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