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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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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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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I grew up in Manhattan, and I've always had all kinds of people around me. I've always had a very 'live and let live' point of view.
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The greatest crime of welfare isn't that it's a waste of money, but that it's a waste of people.
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I try not to get trapped in any one musical or visual style at all.
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I often feel very guilty because of the time that I spend outside of my home and the little time that sometimes I have for my kids.
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You can never be happy until you understand why you're doing what you're doing.
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Miracles begin when we consider the possibility that there might be another way.
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I don't want to make music for people who don't care about music.
