Joseph Henry T Bone Burnett Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

I made a few records here and there by default, but I wasn't ever comfortable in that role. I wasn't comfortable on stage. We'll see how it goes this time.

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.

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

I figured out early on what I wanted to do.

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.

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

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

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The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful.

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.

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