T Bone Burnett
T Bone Burnett
Joseph Henry "T Bone" Burnett IIIis an American musician, songwriter, and soundtrack and record producer. He was a touring guitarist in Bob Dylan's band on the Rolling Thunder Revue. After the tour ended, Burnett and two other members of the backing band formed The Alpha Band, followed by his first solo album in 1980...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth14 January 1948
CountryUnited States of America
technology
Technology changes nothing.
views different mets
At different times in my life I met God from a different point of view.
kids guitar conquer-the-world
Listen, the story of the United States is this: One kid, without anything, walks out of his house, down the road, with nothing but a guitar and conquers the world. And we've done that again, and again, and again – Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Jimmy Rogers, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters.
simple way may
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.
christian mean kids
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.
stress years lasts
I've seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener.
years two records
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.
always-trying ironic tape
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.
eight practice people
My advice for young people is that, if you want to be a musician, the thing to do is practice eight hours a day.
people care want
I don't want to make music for people who don't care about music.
artist risk artisans
Risk is what separates the artist from the artisan.
artist generosity hallmark
The hallmark of an artist is generosity.
attention pay stuff
I don't hear any of the popular stuff unless it's good 'cause I pay no attention to popular culture, at all.
taught language mathematics
For centuries, everything was taught through music. History was taught through music; language and mathematics were taught through music.