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
play records ive-learned
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.
ideas records produce
My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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.
civilization competition records
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.
people age records
We live in an age of music for people who don't like music. The record industry discovered some time ago that there aren't that many people who actually like music. For a lot of people, music's annoying, or at the very least they don't need it. They discovered if they could sell music to a lot of those people, they could sell a lot more records.
few goes time
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.
bad civil compared country hatred people point sing songs war
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.
joe skills takes talent
Joe is a thoroughbred. He has all the talent and skills it takes to be a champion.
born hands heart inspirational nature though
If nature made you a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart. And though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that.
guitar people bob
[Bob] Dylan began to incorporate things into that scene that were controversial then. He got shouted at in Newport when he played electric guitar, for instance. There was a certain purity that was sought among those people.
art use art-is
Probably the deepest use of music and of art is to create conscience.
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.
art culture television
There's always been an incredible amount of junk music, and junk everything. Marshall McLuhan said that a medium surrounds a previous medium, and turns the previous medium into an art form. So, what was once a junk culture, like film, television surrounded it and turned it into an art form.
art television internet
The internet has surrounded television and turned television into an art form.