Joseph Henry T Bone Burnett Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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.

I figured out early on what I wanted to do.

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.

But my point is these Civil War songs were gruesome. The hatred that's so bad in this country today, and for the past 10 or 15 years, bad as it is, is nothing compared to the kind of things people would write down and sing back in the Civil War.

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.

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Construction of the first gas pipeline system was started during the 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, and for all those years, from the 1960s until this day, Russia has been fulfilling its contract obligations in a very consistent and reliable way, regardless of the political situation.

It's not really that I'm interested in filmmaking. I'm interested in the instrument of it, you know.

Readers seem to really like the fact that what I'm writing is not traditional fantasy.

Visually, a lot of the electronic artists have really interesting video and interesting things like that.

I bought a gun and chose drugs instead.

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