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I don't want to make music for people who don't care about 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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Risk is what separates the artist from the artisan.
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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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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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At different times in my life I met God from a different point of view.
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I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
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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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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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I want to write songs and play them for people - live.
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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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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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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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The internet has surrounded television and turned television into an art form.
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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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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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If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.
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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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Technology changes nothing.
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Music was the medium through which knowledge was passed from generation to generation.
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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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