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Ocupation: Musician

Life: b. January 14, 1948

Birthday: January 14

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We live in an age of music for people who don't like music. The record industry discovered some time ago that there aren't that many people who actually like music. For a lot of people, music's annoying, or at the very least they don't need it. They discovered if they could sell music to a lot of those people, they could sell a lot more records.

Topics: People, Age, Records

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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.

Topics: Years, Two, Records

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.

Topics: Thinking, Issues, Band, Alphas

I'm not stupid enough to want to be famous. But I would like to be able to earn a living playing music.

Topics: Stupid, Want, Able, Not Stupid

I figured out early on what I wanted to do.

Topics: Wanted

I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer.

Topics: School, High School, Producers, Recording Studio

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.

Topics: Play, Records, Loud Music

I naturally wanted to be saved, so when I came home I told my mom I wanted to be confirmed. That's the way I related to it, being raised an Episcopalian. I went to Dallas and got confirmed.

Topics: Mom, Home, Way, Episcopalians

I want to write songs and play them for people - live.

Topics: Song, Writing, Play

If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.

Topics: Enough, Relationship With God, Personal Relationship With God, Personal Relationships

It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that.

Topics: Ironic, Trying, Records, Old Days

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.

Topics: War, Hippie, Hatred

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.

Topics: Men, Thinking, Vineyards, Study Group

We live in an age lit by lightnin'; after the flash, we're blind again.

Topics: Age, Blind, Flash

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.

Topics: Music, Running, Art, Children's Imagination

Honesty is the most subversive of all disguises,

source: - Song: Hollywood Mecca of the Movies, Album: The True False Identity

Topics: Honesty, Disguise

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.

Topics: Civilization, Competition, Records, Western Civilization

At different times in my life I met God from a different point of view.

Topics: Views, Different, Mets, Different Points Of View

My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.

Topics: Ideas, Records, Original Ideas

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.

Topics: Kids, Guitar, Water, Howlin Wolf, Hank Williams

Almost everything The Beatles did was great, and it's hard to improve on. They were our Bach. The way to get around it may be to keep it as simple as possible.

Topics: Simple, Way, May

I'm not going to get in to an argument with anyone about the relative merits of Judaism and Christianity, and what it means for a Jewish kid to be a Christian - I'm just not interested in that argument.

Topics: Christian, Mean, Kids

I've seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener.

Topics: Stress, Years, Lasts

The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.

Topics: Art, Thinking, People

Probably the deepest use of music and of art is to create conscience.

source: - Source: collider.com

Topics: Art, Use, Art Is

Risk is what separates the artist from the artisan.

source: - Source: collider.com

Topics: Artist, Risk, Artisans

The more perfect music we have, the more attractive the peculiarities and anomalies of human performance become. Perfection is a second rate idea.

Topics: Ideas, Perfect, Anomalies

Music was the medium through which knowledge was passed from generation to generation.

source: - "T Bone Burnett on the Making of 'Inside Llewyn Davis'". Interview with Hilary Hughes, www.esquire.com. November 20, 2013.

Topics: Generations, Mediums

My advice for young people is that, if you want to be a musician, the thing to do is practice eight hours a day.

source: - Source: collider.com

Topics: Eight, Practice, People

The hallmark of an artist is generosity.

source: - Source: collider.com

Topics: Artist, Generosity, Hallmark

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.

source: - Source: collider.com

Topics: Essence, Rope, Shows

I think, especially among the New York intelligentsia at that time, that there was a reason Bob Dylan went to New York to happen, because there was a culture developed there around the ideas of civil rights, around the idea of democracy growing out of Emerson and Thoreau, these ideas of the fanfare for the common man.

source: - "T Bone Burnett on the Making of 'Inside Llewyn Davis'". Interview with Hilary Hughes, www.esquire.com. November 20, 2013.

Topics: New York, Men, Thinking, Fanfare

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.

source: - Source: collider.com

Topics: Song, News, Ethics

Technology changes nothing.

source: - Source: collider.com

Topics: Technology

I don't want to make music for people who don't care about music.

Topics: People, Care, Want

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.

source: - Source: collider.com

Topics: Technological Advancement

If Picasso walked into Disney looking for a job, they would throw him out on the street. Couldn't draw good enough.

Topics: Looking For A Job

[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.

source: - Source: www.esquire.com

Topics: Electric Guitar

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