T Bone Burnett Quotes

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

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• When I'm doing just music all the time, it can get really overwhelming. It's always challenging to switch it up a bit. And just because you're a musician, it doesn't mean that music is your only creative outlet.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Lead
  • Him

• Music is my way out. I keep things locked up and never say anything. I guess in order to say something to one person, I have to sing it to a couple of thousand. It doesn't make for healthy relationships.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Up
  • Music
  • Never

• I see my fans as music lovers. I really love that. There's no age group or demographic. It's people of all ages and backgrounds. Country people and non-country people. I wanted to make music across the board.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.

  

  Gary Lucas
  • Time
  • Music
  • Listening

• Every day it seems more likely that we are destined - or should one say doomed? - to replay the disastrous economic history of the 1930s.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • History
  • Day
  • Everyday

• Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Value

• I'm not happy if I'm not making music; it's as simple as that. It's a need.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Music
  • Happy
  • Simple

• I always have music. I love it to be very upbeat. When you're having drinks, I like something like Cesaria Evora. During dinner, I like the much more traditional - old Frank Sinatra and things like that.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Music
  • Love
  • Dinner

• Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • History
  • Look
  • Act

• My speech is really important to me, but the thing is at the moment it can't be more important than my singing. Until I'm an established name all over the world, my speech won't be more important than my music.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • World
  • Music
  • Important

• But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Music
  • Music Industry

• I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.

  

  Sacha Baron Cohen
  • History
  • Think
  • You

• It is very difficult to work in another language, and it is also very challenging.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Work
  • Language
  • Difficult

• I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Music
  • Country

• I've always been a big advocate of making shows affordable because a lot of these bottle-service clubs and events are geared toward really expensive experiences. Club music is for everyone, and it drives me crazy that people are getting priced out.

  

  Kaskade
  • People
  • Music
  • Crazy

• If only I could step back into the time of old movies, if only I could be given the opportunity to do what Katharine Hepburn did or what Rosalind Russell did. Those kinds of characters, that kind of patter, that kind of language, that kind of script. They don't exist any more.

  

  Kari Matchett
  • Time
  • Opportunity
  • Language

• We are in the midst of a momentous catastrophe of world history, of a transformation of all aspects of life and of the entire inner human being This is perhaps fortunate for the artistic person, if he is strong enough to bear the consequences, because what we need is the courage to have inner experience.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Life
  • World
  • Experience

• We take it for granted sometimes that certain parts of our history are told, and we take it for granted that we know all that stuff, and we move forward along on that basis, but there are also massive gaps, and we have to try to address them.

  

  Chiwetel Ejiofor
  • History

• In Berlin I especially enjoyed the orchestral concerts, and I attended a large number of them. I formed the acquaintance of a good many musicians, several of whom spoke of my playing in high terms.

  

  James Weldon Johnson
  • Good
  • High

• I've always been a dog owner, from the time I was a little boy in Chicago.

  

  David Seltzer
  • Time
  • Boy
  • Dog

• My pro-choice activism keeps me busy.

  

  Margot Kidder

• She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops, and loved at crises.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Generation
  • Mother`s
  • Crises

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

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Music
  • History
  • Language