Joseph Henry T Bone Burnett Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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.

If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.

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.

I love loud music. I listen loud, and that's part of how I've learned how to do this. Record softly and play back loud and a whole other thing happens.

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.

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Have confidence in everything. No matter what it is that you're doing, know that you can do it better than anyone.

If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!

The philosophy of FIFA is to expand world soccer space, to spread out the world football space.

We're fabricating a state-of-the-art concessions system for our touring, so we can feed the people and give them everything they need without having to wait on it.

I myself know some people who are gay. We're on friendly terms. I'm not prejudiced in any way.

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