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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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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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.

I want to pursue a career in film.

It was interesting to find how dominating American vision is all over the world. I think there's something to be said about the world's mindset and its economics and all of that, and I think it affects the way we see ourselves and it affects music.

People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!

European style is classic, with its own color, and to me, it always feels chic.

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