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
joe skills takes talent
Joe is a thoroughbred. He has all the talent and skills it takes to be a champion.
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.
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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.
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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.
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[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.
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Probably the deepest use of music and of art is to create conscience.
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I don't hear any of the popular stuff unless it's good 'cause I pay no attention to popular culture, at all.
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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.
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The internet has surrounded television and turned television into an art form.
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The hallmark of an artist is generosity.
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Risk is what separates the artist from the artisan.
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.
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Let the business take care of itself. If you get involved in the business, every hour that you're involved in business is an hour that you're not practicing. And every hour that you're not practicing is another hour further away from where you want to be.
technology
Technology changes nothing.