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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.
T Bone Burnett
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T Bone Burnett
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 14
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St. Louis
Missouri
Joseph Henry Burnett III
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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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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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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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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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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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[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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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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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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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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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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Technology changes nothing.
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