Joseph Henry T Bone Burnett Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.

It's a historical phenomenon that in 250 years, a nation could move from a colony into the most prosperous nation of the world and the leader of the world. It is indeed an achievement, a tribute to the talent of the American nation, the American people and an optimal political and economic system.

I think happiness is love.

I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.

In many countries today, moral and ethical norms are being reconsidered; national traditions, differences in nation and culture are being erased.

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