Joseph Henry T Bone Burnett Quotes

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.

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

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.

I figured out early on what I wanted to do.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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