Joseph Henry T Bone Burnett Quotes

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'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.

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

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

I figured out early on what I wanted to do.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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When I designed my first house in L.A., I didn't have any money – I did it all on my own. I liked that.

The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful.

It does make me sad that there's a lot of great songs out there, and they're not going to see the light of day because they're competing with these tailgate songs.

The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.

Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.

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