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Joseph Henry "T Bone" Burnett III (born January 14, 1948) is an American record producer, musician, and songwriter. As producer of the soundtrack O Brother, Where Art Thou?, he renewed interest in American roots music. He received a Grammy Award for that album, for the soundtracks Cold Mountain (2004), Walk the Line (2006), Crazy Heart (2010), and for Raising Sand (2007), in which he united the contemporary bluegrass of Alison Krauss with the blues rock of Robert Plant.

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

Taught, Language, Mathematics, Music, Everything

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.

Art, Culture, Incredible, Junk, Surrounded, Turned

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.

Advancement, Altar, Art, Care, Musician, Technological

At different times in my life I met God from a different point of view.

Different, God, Met, Mets, Times, Views

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.

Bob, Happen, Intelligentsia, Men, New York, Thinking

Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.

Approached, Records, Three, Two, Years

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

Age, Blind, Flash, Live

I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer.

Producer, Producers, Recording, Recording Studio, School, Studio

Technology changes nothing.

Changes, Nothing, Technology

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

Stupid, Playing Music, Want, Living, Like

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

Generations, Knowledge, Medium, Mediums, Music, Passed

I don't want to make music for people who don't care about music.

Care, Make, People, Want

You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it.

Civil, Full, Hatred, Hippie, Incredible, War

I want to write songs and play them for people - live.

Play, Song, Songs, Write, Writing

It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that.

Always Trying, Ironic, Old, Overcoming, Tape, Vinyl

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.

Ethics, Everything, Music, News, Song, Used

We live in an age of music for people who don't like music. The record industry discovered some time ago that there aren't that many people who actually like music. For a lot of people, music's annoying, or at the very least they don't need it. They discovered if they could sell music to a lot of those people, they could sell a lot more records.

Age, Industry, Needs, People, Record, Records

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.

Keep, May, Possible, Simple, Way

If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.

Enough, God, Personal Relationships, Relationship, Relationship With God, True

The hallmark of an artist is generosity.

Artist, Generosity, Hallmark

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