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Joseph Henry T Bone Burnett Quotes

Joseph Henry T Bone Burnett

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

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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.

Joseph Henry T Bone Burnett

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.

Joseph Henry T Bone Burnett

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.

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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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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.

Joseph Henry T Bone Burnett

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

Joseph Henry T Bone Burnett

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.

Joseph Henry T Bone Burnett

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.

Joseph Henry T Bone Burnett

But my point is these Civil War songs were gruesome. The hatred that's so bad in this country today, and for the past 10 or 15 years, bad as it is, is nothing compared to the kind of things people would write down and sing back in the Civil War.

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