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
taught language mathematics
For centuries, everything was taught through music. History was taught through music; language and mathematics were taught through music.
views different mets
At different times in my life I met God from a different point of view.
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.
stress years lasts
I've seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener.
generations mediums
Music was the medium through which knowledge was passed from generation to generation.
men thinking study-group
In other words, I'd say the whole story of Bob Dylan is one man's search for God. The turns and the steps he takes to find God are his business. I think he went to a study group at the Vineyard, and it created a lot of excitement.
war hippie hatred
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.
honesty disguise subversive
Honesty is the most subversive of all disguises,
new-york men thinking
I think, especially among the New York intelligentsia at that time, that there was a reason Bob Dylan went to New York to happen, because there was a culture developed there around the ideas of civil rights, around the idea of democracy growing out of Emerson and Thoreau, these ideas of the fanfare for the common man.
thinking issues band
I think we in the Alpha Band, which was a strange group anyway, weren't dealing with any of these issues. They sneaked up on us and took us over, before we know what was going on.
stupid want able
I'm not stupid enough to want to be famous. But I would like to be able to earn a living playing music.
wanted
I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
song news ethics
Music, for centuries and centuries, was used to teach everything. It was used to teach language, mathematics, history. The news was music. Everything traveled by song. It was used to teach ethics. It was used to create conscience, probably more than anything.
school producers recording-studio
I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer.