Joseph Henry "T Bone" Burnett III (T Bone Burnett) Quotes
I don't want to make music for people who don't care about music.
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I was born in Bradford, a city in the north of England that God forgot about. A place where most people never leave, but if they do, they certainly never go back.
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There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.
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A lot of people tell me, 'You are from North; how do you manage to get along in the South?' I don't know what to say to them. I've always felt at home here, and by learning to speak Telugu, my connection with the place has gotten that much stronger.
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The moment you sense someone is making something because they think people are gonna buy it or like it, it's just so phony! The public has a nose for phony like nobody else.
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I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.
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When you say, 'I spent my summers at the Jersey Shore,' people always say, 'Oh, really?' They think of the TV show. So I just say, 'A cute little harbor town in New Jersey.'
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We were elected in a wave because the people in America, if they had a single issue that troubled them the most, it was that health care vote.
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Gospel music always relaxes me and calms my nerves.
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Japan has really great fans for all kinds of music. I think they're keeping metal alive.
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Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.
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It's so inspiring to be around other people who have ideas you haven't thought of, and all of a sudden you're like, 'Wow! That's so amazing!' I definitely want everything I do to just get better and better.
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The Bowery was a place that would let us do original songs - not just covers - but we would have to work for tips, so we learned how to work an audience. In order to keep our jobs, we had to keep people happy, so that meant playing the latest Lynyrd Skynyrd and ZZ Top or Merle Haggard.
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Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
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Everybody has a Bill Murray story. He just punishes people for reasons they can't figure out.
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I stopped caring what people thought.
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There's a lot of pressure putting an album out all over the world and hoping people everywhere like it.
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What is this? It's music to get a brain seizure by.
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I tried to write 'Trainspotting' in standard English, but people weren't talking like that.
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I am a five-foot six-inch, dark, ordinary-looking man. People didn't imagine that I would make it.
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Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.
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Drama can feel like therapy whereas comedy feels like there's been a pressure and a weight lifted off of you. You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.
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We started our struggle from 2005, and...we organized a lot of protests, weekly protests, in a place we called the Square of Liberty...We knew and know that the freedom of speech is the door to democracy and justice.
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If there are none [gods], All our toil is without meaning.
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I don't want to make music for people who don't care about music.
