Latest T Bone Burnett Quotes from Interviews

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• 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.

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  New York, Men, Thinking

  "T Bone Burnett on the Making of 'Inside Llewyn Davis'". Interview with Hilary Hughes, www.esquire.com. November 20, 2013.

• [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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  Guitar, People, Bob

  Source: www.esquire.com

• Music was the medium through which knowledge was passed from generation to generation.

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  Generations, Mediums

  "T Bone Burnett on the Making of 'Inside Llewyn Davis'". Interview with Hilary Hughes, www.esquire.com. November 20, 2013.

• For centuries, everything was taught through music. History was taught through music; language and mathematics were taught through music.

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  Taught, Language, Mathematics

  "T Bone Burnett on the Making of 'Inside Llewyn Davis'". Interview with Hilary Hughes, www.esquire.com. November 20, 2013.

• People make art on the sides of buildings, and they'll make art on the sides of trains. They'll make art wherever they decide to make art. The technology that people are working with now will be replaced in 10 years, so that's not where your future is, if you're a musician.

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  Art, Technology, Years

  Source: collider.com

• I can tell for sure, the technologists have made it clear that they don't care about musicians. The arts have been sacrificed on the altar of technological advancement.

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  Art, Musician, Advancement

  Source: collider.com

• Technology changes nothing.

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  Technology

  Source: collider.com

• 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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  Eight, Practice, People

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

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  Care, Want, Hours

  Source: collider.com

• Risk is what separates the artist from the artisan.

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  Artist, Risk, Artisans

  Source: collider.com

• The essence of show business is, if you see a tight-rope walker go across a tight rope, everybody claps. But, if you see him wobble, everybody gasps.

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  Essence, Rope, Shows

  Source: collider.com

• The internet has surrounded television and turned television into an art form.

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  Art, Television, Internet

  Source: collider.com

• The hallmark of an artist is generosity.

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  Artist, Generosity, Hallmark

  Source: collider.com

• 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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  Culture, Attention, Pay

  Source: collider.com

• 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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  Art, Junk, Culture

  Source: collider.com

• Probably the deepest use of music and of art is to create conscience.

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  Art, Use, Art Is

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

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  Song, News, Ethics

  Source: collider.com