69 Quotes by T Bone Burnett

When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild.

The more perfect music we have, the more attractive the peculiarities and anomalies of human performance become. Perfection is a second rate idea.

We live in an age lit by lightnin'; after the flash, we're blind again.

When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children’s imaginations are allowed to run wild.

I love loud music. I listen loud, and that’s part of how I’ve learned how to do this. Record softly and play back loud and a whole other thing happens.

Almost everything The Beatles did was great, and it’s hard to improve on. They were our Bach. The way to get around it may be to keep it as simple as possible.

If Picasso walked into Disney looking for a job, they would throw him out on the street. Couldn’t draw good enough.

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.

I’m not stupid enough to want to be famous. But I would like to be able to earn a living playing music.