Joseph Henry T Bone Burnett Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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My English is very bad.

When we cover a Chainsmokers song in our live show with ZBB, people are dancing and going crazy.

The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.

All people who grew up with science fiction and fantasy and horror went through the whole acculturation process of the genre. We were all told to read the golden age writers. We were all told Heinlein and Asimov and all these straight, white males, although some of them were Jewish.

I've always had a problem with the average macho man – they've always been a threat to me.

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