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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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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
Everybody
Wobble
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Gasps
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The internet has surrounded television and turned television into an art form.
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At different times in my life I met God from a different point of view.
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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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Risk is what separates the artist from the artisan.
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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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I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
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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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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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Technology changes nothing.
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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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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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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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