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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 figured out early on what I wanted to do.

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

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I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always on My Mind,' the Willie Nelson version. If I could sing it like he do, I would sing it every night. I like the story it tells.

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When I don't look cool enough or when I cannot make good music anymore, I will retire.

If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money.

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